# Mender-convert E: You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ **URL:** https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-e-you-dont-have-enough-free-space-in-var-cache-apt-archives/7249 **Category:** General Discussions **Tags:** mender-convert **Created:** [October 19, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-e-you-dont-have-enough-free-space-in-var-cache-apt-archives/7249 "2024-10-19T13:40:13Z") **Posts on this page:** 2 **Page:** 1
### Author: ![davidlekve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidlekve](https://hub.mender.io/u/davidlekve) #### Post date: [October 19, 2024, 1:40pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-e-you-dont-have-enough-free-space-in-var-cache-apt-archives/7249/1 "2024-10-19T13:40:13Z")
I am getting this error when following the instructions on [Convert a Mender Debian image | Mender documentation](https://docs.mender.io/operating-system-updates-debian-family/convert-a-mender-debian-image) MENDER\_ARTIFACT\_NAME=image-1 ./docker-mender-convert --disk-image input/testimage.img --config configs/raspberrypi4\_config --overlay input/rootfs\_overlay\_demo/ using log file at: /home/david/tools/mender-convert/logs/convert.log.1729351043-3962 Running mender-convert --disk-image input/testimage.img --config configs/raspberrypi4\_config --overlay input/rootfs\_overlay\_demo/ Running mender-convert-extract: --config ./work/override\_compression\_config --disk-image input/testimage.img --config configs/raspberrypi4\_config --overlay input/rootfs\_overlay\_demo/ 2024-10-19 15:17:23 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/mender\_convert\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:23 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: ./work/override\_compression\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:23 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Using configuration file: configs/raspberrypi4\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:23 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Validating disk image 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] Disk parsed successfully 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] NUMBER OF PARTS: 2 TYPE: dos 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: SIZE: 512M TYPE: 0xc 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 1: extracting to work/part-1.fs 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 2: SIZE: 8.5G TYPE: 0x83 2024-10-19 15:17:24 [INFO] [mender-convert-extract] PART 2: extracting to work/part-2.fs mender-convert-extract has finished. Cleaning up… Running mender-convert-modify: --config ./work/override\_compression\_config --disk-image input/testimage.img --config configs/raspberrypi4\_config --overlay input/rootfs\_overlay\_demo/ 2024-10-19 15:17:42 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/mender\_convert\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:42 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: ./work/override\_compression\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:42 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using configuration file: configs/raspberrypi4\_config 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Creating state folder in the data partition for Mender add-ons 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using root device A in mender.conf: /dev/mmcblk0p2 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using root device B in mender.conf: /dev/mmcblk0p3 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Creating state scripts version file. 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing a custom /etc/fstab (see /mender-convert/logs/convert.log.1729351043-3962 for more info) 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using boot partition device in fstab: /dev/mmcblk0p1 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Using data partition device in fstab: /dev/mmcblk0p4 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing Mender client and related files 2024-10-19 15:17:44 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing Mender Auth and Mender Update version latest 2024-10-19 15:17:46 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Successfully downloaded mender-auth\_4.0.2-1+debian+buster\_arm64.deb 2024-10-19 15:17:47 [INFO] [mender-convert-modify] Installing dependencies for /mender-convert/work/deb-packages/mender-auth\_4.0.2-1+debian+buster\_arm64.deb mender-convert-modify has finished. Cleaning up… 2024-10-19 15:18:03 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed 2024-10-19 15:18:02 [DEBUG] [mender-convert-modify] When running: (modules/chroot.sh:100): run\_and\_log\_cmd(): ``` sudo chroot /mender-convert/work/rootfs/ /tmp/qemu-aarch64-static /usr/bin/env env DEBIAN_FRONTEND=noninteractive DEVICE_TYPE=raspberrypi4 apt --fix-broken --assume-yes install ``` WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. Reading package lists… Building dependency tree… Reading state information… Correcting dependencies… Done The following additional packages will be installed: dbus dbus-bin dbus-daemon dbus-session-bus-common dbus-system-bus-common init-system-helpers libapparmor1 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfile-find-rule-perl libgdbm-compat4 libgdbm6 libnumber-compare-perl libperl5.36 libssl1.1 libtext-glob-perl netbase perl perl-modules-5.36 usrmerge Suggested packages: default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus gdbm-l10n perl-doc libterm-readline-gnu-perl | libterm-readline-perl-perl make libtap-harness-archive-perl The following NEW packages will be installed: dbus dbus-bin dbus-daemon dbus-session-bus-common dbus-system-bus-common init-system-helpers libapparmor1 libdbus-1-3 libexpat1 libfile-find-rule-perl libgdbm-compat4 libgdbm6 libnumber-compare-perl libperl5.36 libssl1.1 libtext-glob-perl netbase perl perl-modules-5.36 usrmerge 0 upgraded, 20 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. 1 not fully installed or removed. Need to get 9551 kB of archives. After this operation, 57.2 MB of additional disk space will be used. E: You don’t have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/. 2024-10-19 15:18:03 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert failed 2024-10-19 15:18:03 [ERROR] [mender-convert] mender-convert exit code: 100 As the logs show, it is a 8.5 gb image and I have tried allocating more than enough space for docker. ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mender/original/2X/b/b933c0c73be42eec5b8b806cef5ac6404f2b9d54.png) ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex036/uploads/mender/original/2X/8/8216a9b238ba1be5a8a97fa1bd4470ab98579d60.png) ---
### Author: ![davidlekve](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c4cdca/32.png) [@davidlekve](https://hub.mender.io/u/davidlekve) #### Post date: [October 19, 2024, 1:44pm UTC](https://hub.mender.io/t/mender-convert-e-you-dont-have-enough-free-space-in-var-cache-apt-archives/7249/2 "2024-10-19T13:44:40Z")
It seems to me that this is a problem caused by running pishrink before mender-convert