No space left on device on fresh volumio 3 (Raspi-4) 64GB SD card

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Hi all,
This week I installed a new volumio (version 3.198) on a Raspberry-4 with a 7-inch touch display and 64GB SD card.
I tried to find the plugin “touch display” under the menue item "Plugins → “Miscellanea” which seems to be not there anymore.
I found the plugin under “Plugins → System Hardware” and tried to install it. I received an error
“no space left on device … mkdir /data/temp”.
I logged on via ssh and checked it.
Yes it is 100% full and the question is how I can solve this?
I mean, I did not use any beta version, upgrade, unofficial topics… . I just installed volumio and thatś it!
Here is the output from my “df” on my volumio-box:
volumio@volumiobox:/data$ df -k .
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
overlay 134727 128798 0 100% /
volumio@volumiobox:/data$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2532792 434388 1950028 19% /imgpart
overlay 134727 128798 0 100% /
devtmpfs 940828 0 940828 0% /dev
tmpfs 981136 0 981136 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs 981136 9164 971972 1% /run
tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 981136 0 981136 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs 981136 40 981096 1% /tmp
tmpfs 981136 0 981136 0% /var/spool/cups
tmpfs 20480 36 20444 1% /var/log
tmpfs 981136 0 981136 0% /var/spool/cups/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1 93548 54960 38588 59% /boot
tmpfs 196224 0 196224 0% /run/user/1000

Here is the log upload: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/VIqmj0n.html
Many thanks to all
Best regards
Eduardo

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Did you wait several minutes after the first boot so the data partition could fully expand? On a system where the data partition had not been expanded there is typically not enough space for all the software the Touch Display plugin needs and tries to download.

You may try running

touch /boot/resize-volumio-datapart

and rebooting.

Check if size of “overlay” is bigger after that. Proceed only if that’s the case.

Then, if the Touch Display plugin should already appear in the list of installed plugins despite the “no space left” issue you had, uninstall and reinstall it from the plugin store.

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I tried"touch /boot/resize-volumio-datapart" and rebootet → no effect.
I installed the SD card new with PI Imager from scratch.
After 1st boot I went shopping, so ~1h away
Anyway I have the same issue.
After installation of plugin “TouchDisplay 3.3.1” the overlay filesystem went to 100%

Before the plugin installation:
olumio@volumiobox:~$ df -k|grep
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2532792 434388 1950028 19% /imgpart
/dev/loop0 371840 371840 0 100% /static
overlay 134727 17575 107117 15% /

After the plugin installation:
olumio@volumiobox:~$ df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2 2532792 434388 1950028 19% /imgpart
/dev/loop0 371840 371840 0 100% /static
overlay 134727 131860 0 100% /

So, when I try to enable the plugin I receive an error: Failed to start /usr/bin/sudo/bin/systemctl start volumio-kiosk.service …not found"
I tried to de-install the plugin and afterwards isntall once more, then the “…no spaceleft…” error comes again.
I believe there is definitely something wrong with the extension of the filesystem.
How can I do this manually ?
Many thanks
Best regards
Eduardo

4

How do you write your SD Card?
Which brand of SD Card?

5

This is way too small. On a 32GB card overlay has a size of about 27GB.

Resizing should be triggered on a reboot after you have created “/boot/resize-volumio-datapart” - but seemingly this did not work for you.

6

Hi,
I used the “Raspberry PI Imager v1.6.2” and then selected “Use a custom” to select the img-file.
SD card is “Sandisk microSDHC UHS-I 64GB class10” .

I found a topic here on the forum with similar behaviour (Problem with volumio_data not expanding)

Thanks for your support.

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This is not the case for Volumio 3, it will check with every restart whether there is any free space left and expand when it is the case.
Somehow, and this issue is already known form Volumio 2, there seems to be an issue with higher capacity SD cards where the free size check obviously fails (sometimes).

@Eduardo2022 Could you please re-flash your SD card and do a test?
Perhaps we can get rid of this issue once and for all.

Just go through the install wizard but do not install anything extra.
Then do a log, followed by the following two commands, one after the other.
Howto: Send a log

echo "$(sudo parted -s "/dev/mmcblk0" unit MB print free | tail -n 2 | grep Free | awk '{print $3}' | awk -F 'MB' '{print $1}')"
echo "$(sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free | grep Free | tail -1 | awk '{print $2}' | grep -o '[0-9]\+')"

There is a difference in the use of " (quote) around the device, this is intended.
Please also check if /boot still holds a resize-volumio-datapart file.
The log will show us how the init routine handled the re-size (if at all).
The first command will show the number of free MB, the second one the SD card’s max size.

8

Good to know! :+1:

9

OK,

  • I installed from scratch.
  • Only initial config
  • Logfile: http://logs.volumio.org/volumio/ptnOxt1.html
    Output from cmdline:
    volumio@volumiobox:~$ echo “$(sudo parted -s “/dev/mmcblk0” unit MB print free | tail -n 2 | grep Free | awk ‘{print $3}’ | awk -F ‘MB’ ‘{print $1}’)”

We trust you have received the usual lecture from the local System
Administrator. It usually boils down to these three things:

#1) Respect the privacy of others.
#2) Think before you type.
#3) With great power comes great responsibility.

[sudo] password for volumio:

volumio@volumiobox:~$ echo “$(sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free | grep Free | tail -1 | awk ‘{print $2}’ | grep -o ‘[0-9]+’)”
96
5
volumio@volumiobox:~$

The resize file is not there:
volumio@volumiobox:/boot$ pwd
/boot
olumio@volumiobox:/boot$ ls -l resize-volumio-datapart
ls: cannot access ‘resize-volumio-datapart’: No such file or directory
volumio@volumiobox:/boot$

I also checked with “ls” command to see what files are in /boot, but no file that contains the word"size".

Thanks

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Hmmm, so the first one returned 96 (free space) and the 2nd one returned 5 (max size of the disk), very odd but clear that it is not working that way.

To make it easier for me, could you do the following commands:

df -h
sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free
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Sure.

volumio@volumiobox:/boot$ df -h
Filesystem      Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2  2.5G  425M  1.9G  19% /imgpart
/dev/loop0      364M  364M     0 100% /static
overlay         132M   18M  105M  15% /
devtmpfs        919M     0  919M   0% /dev
tmpfs           959M     0  959M   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs           959M  9.0M  950M   1% /run
tmpfs           5.0M  4.0K  5.0M   1% /run/lock
tmpfs           959M     0  959M   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs           959M   36K  959M   1% /tmp
tmpfs           959M     0  959M   0% /var/spool/cups
tmpfs            20M   44K   20M   1% /var/log
tmpfs           959M     0  959M   0% /var/spool/cups/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1   92M   54M   38M  59% /boot
tmpfs           192M     0  192M   0% /run/user/1000
volumio@volumiobox:/boot$ sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free
Model: SD SC64G (sd/mmc)
Disk /dev/mmcblk0: 63865MB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: msdos
Disk Flags: 

Number  Start   End      Size     Type     File system  Flags
        0.00MB  0.00MB   0.00MB            Free Space
 1      0.00MB  96.0MB   96.0MB   primary  fat16        boot, lba
        96.0MB  96.5MB   0.47MB            Free Space
 2      96.5MB  2800MB   2703MB   primary  ext4
 3      2800MB  63865MB  61065MB  primary  ext4

volumio@volumiobox:/boot$

Just one topic to be highlightes, I am not sure if you interpreted the commands the right way.
Let’s use the 2 commands (deleted the last grep) from you once more, 1st with quotes (error message) and 2nd without quotes (96.5MB) - see below

volumio@volumiobox:/boot$ sudo parted -s "/dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free| grep Free| tail -1| awk '{print $2}' "
Error: Could not stat device /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free| grep Free| tail -1| awk '{print }' - No such file or directory.
volumio@volumiobox:/boot$ sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 unit MB print free| grep Free| tail -1| awk '{print $2}'
96.5MB
volumio@volumiobox:/boot$
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OK, I formatted your post to make it better readable.

Obviously the output makes sense now, there is no free space, you forgot one quote after /dev/mmcblk0 with the first command.

Anyway, the picture is much clearer now, there is no more free space as re-sizing worked.
However, now we have the find out why the overlay file system is only showing 105M, no idea yet…
Could you do a reboot and then another df -h?

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I tried to restart, but it does not come up anymore.
It is not reachable via ping anymore.
I tested if hotspot is active, but no WLAN available from volumio.

I plugged the power cable off for 10 sec and then on again.
Same result.
It seems something crashed the volumio.

Of course - I can fast install once more from scratch, but we do not have a solution for the small filesystem correct?

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No, not yet, other than doing a reboot after the first one.

The overlay file system should actually get the size of the 3rd partition as it is is created after the resize. But for some unknown reason it does not (yet).

For an intermediate solution, you could use a smaller disk, I always use 8 or 16GB, they are much cheaper and you can also put your own music on a usb stick.
I know, not a solution, but this overlay file system issue could take a while.

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OK,
I installed from scratch and then rebootet after initial configuration.
I did not install anything.
Looks still the same to me:

volumio@volumiobox:~$ df -k
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2   2532792 434388   1950028  19% /imgpart
/dev/loop0        371840 371840         0 100% /static
overlay           134727  17598    107094  15% /
devtmpfs          940828      0    940828   0% /dev
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             981136   5320    975816   1% /run
tmpfs               5120      4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /var/spool/cups
tmpfs             981136     32    981104   1% /tmp
tmpfs              20480     32     20448   1% /var/log
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /var/spool/cups/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1     93548  54960     38588  59% /boot
tmpfs             196224      0    196224   0% /run/user/1000
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No clue at the moment, strange that this only happens on some disks.
Was it a new SD or did you use it before?

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This was a new one - ordered from raspishop.
Let me try it with another new one 32GB.

By the way, is there a manual way to extend the filesystem.
This is what the other users mentioned in the topic found from ~ 2 years a go.
But they did not describe it in detail, so I do not know which commands to use.

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I tried it now with a 32GB SD card. The same behaviour.
Just to recap:

  • Flush SD card with image
  • Initial config of volumio
  • Reboot
  • Install touch screen plugin (seems to work correctly
  • Try to “enable” the plugin, then the error message comes up:
    “Failed to start volumio-kiosk.service: Unit volumio-kiosk.service not found”
  • Try to deinstall the plugin leads to the error message “…no space left …”
volumio@volumiobox:~$ df -k
Filesystem     1K-blocks   Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mmcblk0p2   2532792 434388   1950028  19% /imgpart
/dev/loop0        371840 371840         0 100% /static
overlay           134727 131860         0 100% /
devtmpfs          940828      0    940828   0% /dev
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /dev/shm
tmpfs             981136   9164    971972   1% /run
tmpfs               5120      4      5116   1% /run/lock
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /sys/fs/cgroup
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /var/spool/cups
tmpfs             981136     36    981100   1% /tmp
tmpfs              20480     36     20444   1% /var/log
tmpfs             981136      0    981136   0% /var/spool/cups/tmp
/dev/mmcblk0p1     93548  54960     38588  59% /boot
tmpfs             196224      0    196224   0% /run/user/1000
volumio@volumiobox:~$ sudo systemctl start volumio-kiosk.service
Failed to start volumio-kiosk.service: Unit volumio-kiosk.service not found.
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Which tool do you use to flash these cards?
I mean, a card malfunction can happen (for what ever reason), but two?
And with a commonly used size of 32GB (still too big) getting the same issue?
Perhaps something else is wrong.

Yes, there is a manual procedure to res-size, but we just concluded res-size was OK.
This easily checked with sudo parted -s /dev/mmcblk0 print free
When there is no last line with a “FREE” amount of MB’s, then the data partition has its maximum size.
You can resize manually when you have an existing linux machine somewhere.

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As I already mentioned, I use on my other Raspi the Pi Imager v1.6.2.
But I also tried with dd.
Do you think that the error message “Unit volumio-kiosk.service not found” is a follow-up error?

And yes, I think on my Raspi machine I can probably try the resize or not?