[systemd-devel] [Help] Can't log in to homed user account: "No space left on device"

Andrii Zymohliad azymohliad at protonmail.com
Mon Aug 24 08:49:49 UTC 2020


> I suspect that the workaround until
> this is figured out why the fallocate fails (I suspect shared extents,
> there's evidence this home file has been snapshot and I don't know
> what effect that has on fallocating the file) is to use
> --luks-discard=true ? That should avoid the need to fallocate when
> opening.

Just to confirm, "homectl update --luks-discard=on azymohliad" fixed the issue for me. I can log in again. Thanks a lot to Chris and Andrei!


> And the user will have to be vigilant about the space usage
> of user home because it's now possible to overcommit.

I guess it's better to reduce home size (to something like 300-350G in my case) to decrease the probability of overcommit?



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