Qubes 4rc3: More space needed on the / filesystem.
Fabrizio Romano Genovese
I am trying to install texlive on a fedora-26 template vm. The package is quite big, nevertheless it is correctly downloaded. After this, when the actual installation process would be supposed to start, it fails with the message:
At least *MB more space needed on the / filesystem
I have tried to use qvm-block to attach some cache file to the vm (as suggested, for instance, in ( https://www.qubes-os.org/doc/template/fedora/upgrade-21-to-23/ )
but giving
qvm-block attach fedora-26 cachefile.img
produces the error
qvm-block: error: backend vm 'dom0' doesn't expose device 'cachefile.img'
How do I solve this? I read around that qvm-block is buggy with loop devices, but I am not sure this is the kind of problem I am facing. I also supposed this may have something to do with having a sys-usb VM (the references I found to qvm-block usage are all very outdated and antecedent to the sys-usb era), but then again I don't know precisely how should I proceed.
Cheers,
Fab
Tom Zander
> I am trying to install texlive on a fedora-26 template vm. The package is
> quite big, nevertheless it is correctly downloaded. After this, when the
> actual installation process would be supposed to start, it fails with the
> message:
>
> At least *MB more space needed on the / filesystem
In the settings dialog for a VM its the "System storage max size" item which
you can change. Be aware that the VM likely needs to restart to access the
extra space.
Fabrizio Romano Genovese
I did and I solved the problem now, thanks. I have to say that the problem here was the absence of qubes-manager: I wasn't able to see where to set the root partition dimensions. Also, I am using i3, so the idea of moving "all the relevant stuff" to the start menu is like saying "we really, really hate our i3 users" :D
Cheers,
Fab