Linux 4.19.970v71 noob
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Mitu,
I don't mind repeating my problem. I used rm -rf to delete 4GB and there is still 0GB space available. To clarify, the amount of space total was equal to the amount of space used, so then I deleted some games, and now the amount of space used is less than the total, but there is still 0 available. There were/are no flash memory/USB sticks or hard drives connected to the RaspPi4 and I tried rebooting and still nothing.
From your first sentence, I figured as much from research on the internet. It said that Emulation Station is supposed to copy the configuration from the main menu and disburse it among the various emulators. This may be the same problem, written differently. If I can get some space available on my RetroPie4, I hope it answers my second question, too. I hope this is an easy question.
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Please post the output of
df -h. If you removed 4Gb of ROMs from your USB stick, this won't free up space on your SDcard, where the system resides. -
Like I said, there were no flash memory, USB sticks, or hard drives connected to the RaspPi4, and there are no flash memory, USB sticks, or hard drives connected to the RaspPi4.
Filesystem /dev/root, size is x GB, Used is x-2 GB, available is 0, use is 100%, mounted on /
Can type more but I'm gonna throw down some raw images and hope this board takes it.
First image is rm -rf command, with error saving gamelist.xml to /home/pi/.emulationstation/gamelists/n64/gamelist.xml
Second image is Failed to start mount/unmount and delete a file
Third image is parse error
Fourth image is successful configuration of 16bit controller, failed configuration of 64-bit controller,
Fifth image is mkdir: cannot create director tmp/;retroarchs: No space left on device.
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As I said before, you've run out of space - you need to delete files from your sdcard to make room. I don't see the
rmcommand in first image:
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Please do not respond to this message again, mitu.
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size 361GB, used 359GB - that's not 5% deleted as mitu requested. 5% of space is reserved for root. The percentage use covers the usage from the POV of the pi user, which is what's important for retropie, etc..
so, as mitu says, you need to free more space.
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@diotialate said in Linux 4.19.970v71 noob:
Please do not respond to this message again, mitu.
What do you mean by this?
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OP seems unfamiliar with this. Is he using a 400GB pirate image?
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@Darksavior Never used a pirate image or ISO file. I'm painstakingly using my ex-wife's Ouya Dev and copied most of the memory using a 128GB and a 256GB memory stick onto a 400GB microSD card with only Retropie and have no idea why it's full but whatever.
I will repeat the question. "Size" of volume and "Used" of volume used to be equal (100%) . I deleted some files. Why is "available" not equal to "size" minus "used?" On Windows 95 and on, there would be a recycle bin. I thought that some space would be still taken up after deletion, so I rebooted. If deleted some more files, as mitu said, I'm afraid that the volume would still have 0 space available.
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@diotialate said in Linux 4.19.970v71 noob:
I will repeat the question. "Size" of volume and "Used" of volume used to be equal (100%) . I deleted some files. Why is "available" not equal to "size" minus "used?"
i've already explained this to you - until you free more than 5%, it will say 100% used, because 5% is reserved by root.
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OK finally an answer with no counter-example. We're finally on the same page. Thank you for a logical-sounding answer. Windows WANTS 5% "to perform disk defragmentation, but Linux "NEEDS" 5%. The instruction isn't "delete some files" as several posts before, but "delete files UNTIL 32GB of files are deleted BECAUSE Linux is eating your free space AND will continue to eat free space while deleting files until 32GB are deleted."
As a post-mortem, it looks like everybody ignored my "recycle bin" question probably because it was "too stupid to ask," but I think answering the question would've connected the dots together.
I had an inkling that this would be a super-easy question but that doesn't make it any easier to answer.
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@diotialate said in Linux 4.19.970v71 noob:
As a post-mortem, it looks like everybody ignored my "recycle bin" question probably because it was "too stupid to ask," but I think answering the question would've connected the dots together.
For what it's worth, I didn't know 100% for sure the answer to this, although I had a good idea. A simple google search of "does linux have recycle bin" turned up a couple of easy fast answers. The answer is from a command line, no there isn't one. Many desktop distros do present a "trash" container that you do need to empty.
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