diff --git a/integration-cli/docker_cli_daemon_test.go b/integration-cli/docker_cli_daemon_test.go
index 98fb5bdd0b..0507bf11a8 100644
--- a/integration-cli/docker_cli_daemon_test.go
+++ b/integration-cli/docker_cli_daemon_test.go
@@ -1914,27 +1914,28 @@ func (s *DockerDaemonSuite) TestDaemonNoSpaceleftOnDeviceError(c *check.C) {
 
 	// create a 2MiB image and mount it as graph root
 	cmd := exec.Command("dd", "of=/tmp/testfs.img", "bs=1M", "seek=2", "count=0")
-	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		c.Fatalf("dd failed: %v", err)
-	}
+	out, err := cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	c.Assert(err, checker.IsNil, check.Commentf(string(out)))
+
 	cmd = exec.Command("mkfs.ext4", "-F", "/tmp/testfs.img")
-	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		c.Fatalf("mkfs.ext4 failed: %v", err)
-	}
+	out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	c.Assert(err, checker.IsNil, check.Commentf(string(out)))
+
 	cmd = exec.Command("mkdir", "-p", "/tmp/testfs-mount")
-	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		c.Fatalf("mkdir failed: %v", err)
-	}
+	out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	c.Assert(err, checker.IsNil, check.Commentf(string(out)))
+
 	cmd = exec.Command("mount", "-t", "ext4", "-no", "loop,rw", "/tmp/testfs.img", "/tmp/testfs-mount")
-	if err := cmd.Run(); err != nil {
-		c.Fatalf("mount failed: %v", err)
-	}
-	err := s.d.Start("--graph", "/tmp/testfs-mount")
+	out, err = cmd.CombinedOutput()
+	c.Assert(err, checker.IsNil, check.Commentf(string(out)))
+
+	err = s.d.Start("--graph", "/tmp/testfs-mount")
 	c.Assert(err, check.IsNil)
 
 	// pull a repository large enough to fill the mount point
-	out, err := s.d.Cmd("pull", "registry:2")
-	c.Assert(out, checker.Contains, "no space left on device")
+	pullOut, err := s.d.Cmd("pull", "registry:2")
+	c.Assert(err, checker.NotNil, check.Commentf(pullOut))
+	c.Assert(pullOut, checker.Contains, "no space left on device")
 }
 
 // Test daemon restart with container links + auto restart