Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 18:40:40 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> To: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com> Cc: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Message-ID: <3D5D3918.1060006@cream.org> References: <3D5C5F89.8050006@cream.org> <20020816031235.GA411@smnolde.com>
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Scott M. Nolde wrote: >Andrew Boothman(andrew@cream.org)@2002.08.16 03:12:25 +0000 > >>However, during an FTP install from ftp.uk.freebsd.org when it reaches >>'chunk 4' the system displays a message saying "Write failure on >>transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 240260 bytes)" and "/: write failed, >>filesystem is full" >> >>VTY1 shows : >>. >>. >>bin/ls >>bin/mkdev >>bin/mv >>pid 72 (cpio), uid 0 on /: filesystem is full >>/stand/cpio: write error: No space left on drive >>/stand/gunzip: failed fwrite >> >>A quick /stand/df on VTY4 shows 101% capacity on /dev/md0c mounted on / >>but just 1% capacity on /dev/ad0s1a mounted on /mnt. I've never delved >>this far into a sysinstall installation before, but it sounds like it is >>failing on unpacking files into a memory disk? What could have caused >>this problem >> >md0c is a memory disk and you're not actually writing to your hard drive, >which would be ad0 or ad1. > Hmmm. Thats exactly what I thought. What does sysinstall use the memory disk for? Is this the same memory disk contained on the mfsroot floppy? In which case why is it trying to unpack more files there? Just trying to understand the problem here.... Thanks Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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