remote: abort: no space left on device (but it seems there is enough space)

[TK Soh]

On 4/16/07, Alexis S. L. Carvalho <alexis at cecm.usp.br> wrote:
> Thus spake Marcin Kasperski:
> > While executing hg push, I got an error
> >          remote: abort: no space left on device
> > But there is about 2GB of free space on the remote side, and local .hg
> > has about 500MB.
> >
> > Is mercurial trying to use some other filesystem (say /tmp or remote
> > home)? Or what can
> > be the reason of this error?
>
> To avoid keeping the repo locked while the client is uploading the data,
> hg writes everything to a temporary file, locks the repo and then
> uses this temporary file to add the revisions.

This is quite a surprise. I frequently check in fairly large files. So
I guess I've 'lucky' so far. Is this documented somewhere accessible
by users?

> Since we don't specify any directory, python obeys $TMPDIR/$TEMP/$TMP
> and then falls back to /tmp, /var/tmp, ...
>
> Maybe we should create this temporary file inside .hg...  Hmm...

The concern is these tmp locations frequently get filled by users or
stray processes on our systems. So .hg maybe a better place, for now.