building kernel filled all free disk space

[gustavz]

i ran your scripts and they took about 3GB of disk space. That was all i need, now my jetson has no free disk space anymore.

Where did this space go? the folder where i executed it is very small. where are the 3GB?

Please help

[jetsonhacks]

After flashing the TX2, there is approximately 8GB used if the Jetson was flashed with the standard libraries, specialty libraries and samples.

The compressed kernel source files are: 138.6 MB /usr/src/public_release which are the decompressed source files: 122MB /usr/src/hardware source files: 2MB /usr/src/kernel source files and compiled object files: 3.9 GB If you set your local version to something other than 4.4.38-tegra, the compiled modules take up about 113.3 MB.

I am not sure why you are asking me to provide this information. This information is provided in the 'Notes' of the README.MD file. On a TX2 this does not kill all free disk space, typically there are over > 15GB free after building a kernel and modules.

All of this is covered in the article: http://www.jetsonhacks.com/2018/03/22/build-kernel-modules-nvidia-jetson-tx2-2/ In the YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80c5j0rSN_0 You could also read the code as a last resort.

[gustavz]

i was using this for installing librealsense. Their installation guide used this repo as workaround for jetsons.

My jetson was all setup and running, but running through the scripts in this repo filled my remaining 3gb, probably it would have taken more, but it obviously stopped after the disk was full.

Now the Jetson won't boot due to the full disk. How can i reflash it without it booting?

I am able to do ctrl+alt+f1 and deleted some files, but still it is not able to boot. Maybe its the damaged image the kernel created...

Edit: df -h says: /dev/root is 100% used with 28 GB

[gustavz]

i reflashed the jetson with jetpack 3.2 and again tried to buil librealsense with the kernel patches and now source files are of this size when look at with du: 3248 /usr/src/hardware 817136 /usr/src/kernel

So more than double of yours, does this just copy everything? how can i clean the /usr/src/kernel directory?

[jetsonhacks]

Those are the correct sizes. You can erase all of the kernel/module files source and build files:

$ sudo rm -r /usr/src/kernel $ sudo rm -r /usr/src/hardware $ sudo rm -r /usr/src/public_release $ sudo rm -r /usr/src/source_release.tbz2

You can also delete the build kernel repository:

$ cd ~/ $ sudo rm -r buildJetsonTX2Kernel

This should remove everything installed by the buildJetsonTX2Kernel.

[gustavz]

a perfectly thanks! Why are those files created? as backup?

[jetsonhacks]

They are created to compile the kernel and module source files.

[gustavz]

is it also safe to delete/usr/src/linux-headers-4.4.38-tegra ?

[jetsonhacks]

Those are part of the stock L4T installation. You will need to determine if they are valuable to your development environment or not.