Struggling getting podman working on Raspberry Pi

[Jens Reimann]

Hi,

I tried to get a podman container up and running on Fedora IoT. According
to the docs [1], that should be simple. But it fails for me due to the lack
of disk space:

~~~
Storing signatures
 Error processing tar file(exit status 1): write /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/
tutor.ru: no space left on device
Error: unable to pull ghcr.io/drogue-iot/hey-rodney-pocketsphinx:latest:
Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob
"sha256:bd8af20134e868f1d08513
8b55404b22170dbc8dde8d8db8f7fe07d13378e6a1": Error processing tar file(exit
status 1): write /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/tutor.ru: no space left on
device
~~~

The problem I have, growing the partition according to the Fedora docs [2]
doesn't work either:

~~~
[root@localhost ~]# growpart /dev/mmcblk0 3
-bash: growpart: command not found
~~~

As the distribution is OStree based, I understand that you cannot simply
use `dnf` to install additional packages.

However, in the Fedora IoT docs, I also cannot find any information in how
to grow the partition.

I think resizing the partition on Raspberry Pi is such a common task, that
it should either be done automatically, or the docs should contain some
quick instructions on how to perform this task.

Cheers

Jens

[1]: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/iot/container-support/
[2]:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi#Resize_after_i...

[Paul Whalen]

Hi Jens,

----- Original Message -----
> Hi,
>
> I tried to get a podman container up and running on Fedora IoT. According to
> the docs [1], that should be simple. But it fails for me due to the lack of
> disk space:
> Storing signatures
> Error processing tar file(exit status 1): write /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/
> tutor.ru : no space left on device
> Error: unable to pull ghcr.io/drogue-iot/hey-rodney-pocketsphinx:latest :
> Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob
> "sha256:bd8af20134e868f1d08513
> 8b55404b22170dbc8dde8d8db8f7fe07d13378e6a1": Error processing tar file(exit
> status 1): write /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/ tutor.ru : no space left on
> device
>
> The problem I have, growing the partition according to the Fedora docs [2]
> doesn't work either:
> [root@localhost ~]# growpart /dev/mmcblk0 3
> -bash: growpart: command not found

You can install cloud-utils to use the growpart command, or use the 
arm-image-installer when writing out the image to use the full space.

To install the package 'rpm-ostree install cloud-utils'.
> As the distribution is OStree based, I understand that you cannot simply use
> `dnf` to install additional packages.
>
> However, in the Fedora IoT docs, I also cannot find any information in how to
> grow the partition.
>
> I think resizing the partition on Raspberry Pi is such a common task, that it
> should either be done automatically, or the docs should contain some quick
> instructions on how to perform this task.

Thanks for the feedback, I'll add something to our docs.

Paul
> Cheers
>
> Jens
>
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[Jens Reimann]

Hi Paul,

thanks for the reply. I simply attached the SD card to a SD card reader and
used "gparted" from my desktop.

However, having all of those options documented for the use case: "How do I
grow my partition?" would make sense to me. To spare others the research :)

Cheers

Jens

On Wed, Dec 16, 2020 at 4:22 PM Paul Whalen  wrote:
> Hi Jens,
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hi,
> >
> > I tried to get a podman container up and running on Fedora IoT.
>
> According to
> > the docs [1], that should be simple. But it fails for me due to the lack
>
> of
> > disk space:
> > Storing signatures
> > Error processing tar file(exit status 1): write
>
> /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/
> > tutor.ru : no space left on device
> > Error: unable to pull ghcr.io/drogue-iot/hey-rodney-pocketsphinx:latest
>
> :
> > Error committing the finished image: error adding layer with blob
> > "sha256:bd8af20134e868f1d08513
> > 8b55404b22170dbc8dde8d8db8f7fe07d13378e6a1": Error processing tar
>
> file(exit
> > status 1): write /usr/share/vim/vim81/tutor/ tutor.ru : no space left on
> > device
> > The problem I have, growing the partition according to the Fedora docs
>
> [2]
> > doesn't work either:
> > [root@localhost ~]# growpart /dev/mmcblk0 3
> > -bash: growpart: command not found
>
> You can install cloud-utils to use the growpart command, or use the
> arm-image-installer when writing out the image to use the full space.
>
> To install the package 'rpm-ostree install cloud-utils'.
> > As the distribution is OStree based, I understand that you cannot simply
>
> use
> > `dnf` to install additional packages.
> >
> > However, in the Fedora IoT docs, I also cannot find any information in
>
> how to
> > grow the partition.
> >
> > I think resizing the partition on Raspberry Pi is such a common task,
>
> that it
> > should either be done automatically, or the docs should contain some
>
> quick
> > instructions on how to perform this task.
>
> Thanks for the feedback, I'll add something to our docs.
>
> Paul
> > Cheers
> >
> > Jens
> >
> > [2]:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Architectures/ARM/Raspberry_Pi#Resize_after_i...
> > --
> > Jens Reimann
> > Principal Software Engineer / R&D Product Middleware
> > Werner-von-Siemens-Ring 14
> > 85630 Grasbrunn
> > Germany
> > phone: [phone]
> > Red Hat GmbH, https://de.redhat.com/
> > Registered seat: Grasbrunn, Commercial register: Amtsgericht Muenchen,
>
> HRB
> > 153243,
> > Managing Directors: Charles Cachera, Brian Klemm, Laurie Krebs, Michael
> > O'Neill
> >
> > IoT mailing list -- [e-mail]
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