Question

I am using eclipse Egit plugin. we have a repository to maintain all the libraries we use. So today i got to commit and push some 50 libraries files along with their sources into our remote repository (we have a server hosting our code base)

when i tried pushing i get following error. we use ssh for pushing and fetching contents from remote repository (not http).

error: file write error (Disk quota exceeded)9 MiB/s   
fatal: unable to write sha1 file
error: pack-objects died of signal 13

can some some explain why this was happening. did we miss setting some paramaters on server regarding some size limits for file content.

Answer 1

That should be a limitation on the Server OS (your Ubuntu 11.10), and you need to check if quotas have been activated (they aren’t on by default).

This article explains how quotas are managed.
And check if the quota is coherent with what your git user n the server is actually using, as mentioned in this question.

 quota -su git
 # versus
 du -sh ~git

If not, a quotacheck is in order.