From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 27 16:27:29 1995 Return-Path: current-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id QAA24395 for current-outgoing; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:27:29 -0800 Received: from godzilla.zeta.org.au (godzilla.zeta.org.au [203.2.228.34]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA24384 for ; Mon, 27 Feb 1995 16:27:14 -0800 Received: (from bde@localhost) by godzilla.zeta.org.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA22751; Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:21:27 +1100 Date: Tue, 28 Feb 1995 11:21:27 +1100 From: Bruce Evans Message-Id: <199502280021.LAA22751@godzilla.zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, roberto@blaise.ibp.fr Subject: Re: Disappearing space in root fs. Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, phk@ref.tfs.com Sender: current-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >Another sympthom is : do a make install in sbin/bin/lkm with not enough >space on it to contain all the / executables and two kernels (that is my >current situation, my root partition size is inherited from my 1.1.5.1 >setup and is only 12 MB). I think this is a different problem. Some libraries (libc...) are in use. It isn't open, but it is mmapped. >At some point it will say "No space left on device" and all the binaries >that were not installed take space till the next fsck :-( The usual point is for libc. Install should be more careful about disk- full errors. It unlink()s the target so it has no way to recover from disk-full errors. Perhaps it should copy the source to the target file system and then use unlink() and rename(). Bruce