Not enough space when building flash-images with new linux-firmware in build

[Adolf Belka <adolf.belka@ipfire.org>]

Hi All,

I have run into a problem when running a build with a new linux-firmware version. After doing the rootfile update and modifications it successfully did the cdrom build step but then in the flash-images build it failed with not enough space and then all subsequent steps failed due to directories or files not being present due to not being able to create the directories with mkdir.

The following is the log output taken up to the first few messages about cannot mkdir - not enough space left on device.

It looks like the very large linux-firmware update is exceeding the available space in the flash-images build loop device.



Oct 14 18:32:07: Building flash-images make: Entering directory '/home/ahb/sandbox/ipfire-2-builder2/lfs'
make: Nothing to be done for 'download'.
make: Leaving directory '/home/ahb/sandbox/ipfire-2-builder2/lfs'
make: Entering directory '/usr/src/lfs'
make: Nothing to be done for 'b2'.
rm -rf /tmp/image.img /tmp/harddisk && mkdir -p /tmp/harddisk
# Allocate image on disk
dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/image.img bs=512 count=0 seek=$(( 8192 + 1040384 + 65536  + 5242880 ))
0+0 records in
0+0 records out
0 bytes copied, 1.1752e-05 s, 0.0 kB/s
losetup /dev/loop1 /tmp/image.img
# Write Partition table
echo -e "8192,1040384,L,*\n1048576,65536 ,U\n1114112,5242880,L\n" | sfdisk -uS /dev/loop1
Checking that no-one is using this disk right now ... OK

Disk /dev/loop1: 3.03 GiB, 3254779904 bytes, 6356992 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes

>>> Created a new DOS (MBR) disklabel with disk identifier 0xf25def00.
/dev/loop1p1: Created a new partition 1 of type 'Linux' and of size 508 MiB.
/dev/loop1p2: Created a new partition 2 of type 'EFI (FAT-12/16/32)' and of size 32 MiB.
/dev/loop1p3: Created a new partition 3 of type 'Linux' and of size 2.5 GiB.
/dev/loop1p4: Done.

New situation:
Disklabel type: dos
Disk identifier: 0xf25def00

Device       Boot   Start     End Sectors Size Id Type
/dev/loop1p1 *       8192 1048575 1040384 508M 83 Linux
/dev/loop1p2      1048576 1114111   65536  32M ef EFI (FAT-12/16/32)
/dev/loop1p3      1114112 6356991 5242880 2.5G 83 Linux

The partition table has been altered.
Calling ioctl() to re-read partition table.
Re-reading the partition table failed.: Invalid argument
The kernel still uses the old table. The new table will be used at the next reboot or after you run partprobe(8) or partx(8).
Syncing disks.
kpartx -v -a /dev/loop1
add map loop1p1 (252:8): 0 1040384 linear 7:1 8192
add map loop1p2 (252:9): 0 65536 linear 7:1 1048576
add map loop1p3 (252:10): 0 5242880 linear 7:1 1114112
# kpartx trigger a automount on some desktop enviroments
# this leads in failing zerofree after build and umount the image
# with the sleep 1 prevent this because the image has no fs yet.
sleep 1
# Format them
mkfs.ext2 -F /dev/mapper/loop1p1
mke2fs 1.47.4 (6-Mar-2025)
Discarding device blocks:      0/520192\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b             \b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bdone
Creating filesystem with 520192 1k blocks and 130048 inodes
Filesystem UUID: d527d8f0-d99e-4a38-a0ea-f23e468823b1
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
	8193, 24577, 40961, 57345, 73729, 204801, 221185, 401409

Allocating group tables:  0/64\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone
Writing inode tables:  0/64\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:  0/64\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone

mkfs.vfat /dev/mapper/loop1p2
mkfs.fat 4.2 (2021-01-31)
mkfs.ext4 -F /dev/mapper/loop1p3
mke2fs 1.47.4 (6-Mar-2025)
Discarding device blocks:      0/655360\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b             \b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\b\bdone
Creating filesystem with 655360 4k blocks and 163840 inodes
Filesystem UUID: 472cb45d-66c9-40f6-9d37-86282522bffd
Superblock backups stored on blocks:
	32768, 98304, 163840, 229376, 294912

Allocating group tables:  0/20\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone
Writing inode tables:  0/20\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone
Creating journal (16384 blocks): done
Writing superblocks and filesystem accounting information:  0/20\b\b\b\b\b     \b\b\b\b\bdone

# Most systems that use Flashimages has no RTC at boot
# so the interval check should disables
tune2fs -i0 /dev/mapper/loop1p3
tune2fs 1.47.4 (6-Mar-2025)
Setting interval between checks to 0 seconds
# Mount root partition
mount /dev/mapper/loop1p3 /tmp/harddisk
# Mount boot partition
mkdir -pv /tmp/harddisk/boot
mkdir: created directory '/tmp/harddisk/boot'
mount /dev/mapper/loop1p1 /tmp/harddisk/boot
mkdir -pv /tmp/harddisk/boot/efi
mkdir: created directory '/tmp/harddisk/boot/efi'
mount /dev/mapper/loop1p2 /tmp/harddisk/boot/efi
# Copy all files
# Copy all files from /usr/src/config/rootfiles/common to /tmp/harddisk ()
#  = rootfile to write out
#  = exclude
ROOTFILE_PLACEHOLDERS="@BUILDTARGET@=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu @RUST_PLATFORM@=x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu @KERNEL_RELEASE@=6.18.54-ipfire @ARCH@=x86_64 @ARCH_DASHED@=x86-64" /usr/src/src/scripts/archive.files x86_64 /usr/src/config/rootfiles/common  | tee  | tar --create --format=pax --acls --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' --sparse --directory=/ --exclude="dev/pts/*" --exclude="proc/*" --exclude="tmp/*" --exclude="__pycache__"  --files-from=- | tar --extract --format=pax --acls --xattrs --xattrs-include='*' --sparse --directory=/tmp/harddisk
tar: usr/lib/pkcs11/p11-kit-client.so: Wrote only 512 of 10240 bytes
tar: usr/lib/pkcs11/p11-kit-trust.so: Wrote only 4096 of 6656 bytes
tar: usr/lib/pppd: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
tar: usr/lib/pppd: Cannot mkdir: No space left on device
tar: usr/lib/pppd/2.5.2: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: usr/lib/pppd/2.5.2: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory
tar: usr/lib/pppd/2.5.2/radattr.so: Cannot open: No such file or directory
tar: usr/lib/pppd/2.5.2: Cannot mkdir: No such file or directory

Regards,

Adolf.