Error: Selected packages exceed device storage

[lgeitner]

When using the OpenWrt Firmware Selector (https://firmware-selector.openwrt.org)

If I select Raspberry Pi 5/500/CM5 for device and 24.10.5 for the version, then click on "Customize installed packages and/or first boot script", then add dockerd under installed packages.

I then click on REQUEST BUILD.

I receive the following message "Error: Selected packages exceed device storage"

The dockerd package is only 19.61 MiB. How can ~20MB exceed device storage?

Thank You,
Lance

Error: Selected packages exceed device storage
STDERR

Package list missing or not up-to-date, generating it.

Building package index...
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2712/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_core
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2712/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/base/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_base
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/base/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2712/kmods/6.6.119-1-fea92848c8c075dc0d6dd2ea7666a1d6/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_kmods
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/targets/bcm27xx/bcm2712/kmods/6.6.119-1-fea92848c8c075dc0d6dd2ea7666a1d6/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/luci/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_luci
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/luci/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/packages/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_packages
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/routing/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_routing
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/routing/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/telephony/Packages.gz
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/openwrt_telephony
Downloading http://downloads.openwrt.org/releases/24.10.5/packages/aarch64_cortex-a76/telephony/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Downloading file:packages/Packages
Updated list of available packages in /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/../../../../builder/dl/imagebuilder
Downloading file:packages/Packages.sig
Signature check passed.
Pseudo file "dev" exists in source filesystem "/builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/root-bcm27xx/dev".
Ignoring, exclude it (-e/-ef) to override.
error: ext4_allocate_best_fit_partial: failed to allocate 500 blocks, out of space?
make[3]: *** [/builder/include/image.mk:399: /builder/build_dir/target-aarch64_cortex-a76_musl/linux-bcm27xx_bcm2712/root.ext4] Error 1
make[2]: *** [Makefile:268: build_image] Error 2
make[1]: *** [Makefile:163: _call_image] Error 2
make: *** [Makefile:337: image] Error 2

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/app/.venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rq/worker.py", line 1439, in perform_job
return_value = job.perform()
File "/app/.venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rq/job.py", line 1318, in perform
self._result = self._execute()
~~~~~~~~~~~~~^^
File "/app/.venv/lib/python3.14/site-packages/rq/job.py", line 1376, in _execute
result = self.func(*self.args, **self.kwargs)
File "/app/asu/build.py", line 463, in build
result = _build(build_request, job)
File "/app/asu/build.py", line 327, in _build
report_error(job, "Selected packages exceed device storage")
~~~~~~~~~~~~^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
File "/app/asu/util.py", line 332, in report_error
raise RuntimeError(msg)
RuntimeError: Selected packages exceed device storage

[efahl]

I think default total rootfs space for that device is 104MB, so the sum total of all packages after installation appears to exceed that.

Just to be clear, this only happens when you add dockerd and does not when you build without it?

[lgeitner]

When I compile the build using the default installed packages it does compile without any errors. As soon as I add dockerd to the end of the list of installed packages it fails with error "Selected packages exceed device storage"

I can however compile the build just fine with all these packages and don't receive any errors about exceeding disk storage!

base-files bcm27xx-gpu-fw bcm27xx-utils ca-bundle dnsmasq dropbear e2fsprogs firewall4 fstools kmod-fs-vfat kmod-nft-offload kmod-nls-cp437 kmod-nls-iso8859-1 kmod-sound-arm-bcm2835 kmod-sound-core kmod-usb-hid libc libgcc libustream-mbedtls logd mkf2fs mtd netifd nftables odhcp6c odhcpd-ipv6only opkg partx-utils ppp ppp-mod-pppoe procd-ujail uci uclient-fetch urandom-seed cypress-firmware-43455-sdio brcmfmac-nvram-43455-sdio kmod-brcmfmac kmod-i2c-bcm2835 kmod-spi-bcm2835 kmod-i2c-brcmstb kmod-i2c-designware-platform kmod-spi-dw-mmio kmod-hwmon-pwmfan kmod-thermal iwinfo kmod-usb-storage kmod-fs-ext4 kmod-usb3 kmod-usb-net-cdc-mbim kmod-usb-net-asix-ax88179 hwclock pciutils cfdisk losetup parted resize2fs blkid sed netperf ddns-scripts ddns-scripts-noip luci-app-ddns luci-ssl-nginx luci-app-sqm sqm-scripts luci-app-irqbalance irqbalance htop nano iftop usbutils git git-http curl wget luci-app-commands sudo ip-full luci-app-advanced-reboot owut auc luci-app-attendedsysupgrade wpad-mbedtls banip luci-app-banip luci-app-statistics collectd-mod-thermal collectd-mod-network collectd-mod-exec collectd-mod-sqm collectd-mod-ethstat collectd-mod-ipstatistics collectd-mod-irq collectd-mod-load collectd-mod-ping collectd-mod-powerdns collectd-mod-wireless watchcat luci-app-watchcat

Is there some kind of parameter I could add to increase the default rootfs space?

Lance

[lgeitner]

If I remove all installed packages and add just dockerd as the only installed package, the build still fails with the error "Error: Selected packages exceed device storage"

the dockerd package is only 20 MB. The default rootfs space is 104MB.

How can that exceed device storage?

Thanks,
Lance

[efahl]

Oops, I completely blanked on the fact that you're using Firmware Selector...

the dockerd package is only 20 MB. The default rootfs space is 104MB.

How can that exceed device storage?

When you install dockerd it pulls in a bunch of other packages, too. That probably overflows that small root partition.

Is there some kind of parameter I could add to increase the default rootfs space?

No, not with Firmware Selector. If you were to use owut or LuCI ASU on the device, then you could increase the rootfs partition up to 1GB. See https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-user/installation/sysupgrade.owut#expanding_root_file_system

[lgeitner]

I'll look into using owut.

Thank You,
Lance