How to Fix – TortoiseSVN: Can’t set position pointer in file ‘/tmp/svn-XXXX’: No space left on device
When using TortoiseSVN, I recently encountered this pesky error (on Windows 7).
Can’t set position pointer in file ‘/tmp/svn-Z5vuSh’: No space left on device
The strange thing was that the server being used was only 1% full. So what was happening?
I decided it must be a local issue and restarted my computer. That did not fix it, of course. So the next step was to use Disk Cleanup to delete my temporary files (this can be accessed in the START menu — type in DISK to bring it up faster).
Next, I loaded the SETTINGS area for TortoiseSVN and cleared all my logs under “SAVED DATA”. Like magic, it now worked. Was it the clearing of the temporary files that fixed the issue? Was it the clearing of the Tortoise logs? Or did the server magically fix itself?
The world will never know! However, YOU will now hopefully have some ideas of things to try to get rid of the problem.
Edit: You can also try a handful of other things as well, such as SVN Cleanup. Here’s some info provided by TortoiseSVN on cleaning things up like a champ: Cleanup
not worked for me
I’m sorry to hear that!
Unfortunately, a lot of issues can cause this. StackOverflow has some posts on it with different solutions. I recommend checking on there too.
I cleared “log messages” (input log & show log dialog) and that fixed it for me.
Thanks for the hint!
Also you can try svn cleanup
Awesome suggestion. Thanks!
I’ve cleaned everything but authentication stuff, didn’t do it for me… Also cleaned my temporary files, didn’t help. My co-worker cleaned the authentication stuff as well, didn’t help either. SVN Clean did nothing.