From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 17 14:39:23 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31F4F16A4CE for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:39:23 +0000 (GMT) Received: from male.aldigital.co.uk (male.thebunker.net [213.129.64.13]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDADF43D82 for ; Tue, 17 May 2005 14:39:20 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from matthew@thebunker.net) Received: from lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net (gateway.ash.thebunker.net [213.129.64.4]) (using TLSv1 with cipher EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA (168/168 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by male.aldigital.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 65518977A1; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:39:17 +0100 (BST) Received: from lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) j4HEdHoP003400; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:39:17 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net) Received: (from matthew@localhost)j4HEdGni003399; Tue, 17 May 2005 15:39:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from matthew) Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:39:16 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman To: platanthera Message-ID: <20050517143916.GA22662@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> Mail-Followup-To: Matthew Seaman , platanthera , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Ross Adams Lippert References: <20050514165453.GA2287@mint-square.mit.edu> <200505142019.j4EKJS4S021948@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050514213011.GA23191@no-knife.mit.edu> <200505151752.54984.platanthera@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200505151752.54984.platanthera@web.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i cc: Ross Adams Lippert cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 14:39:23 -0000 --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, May 15, 2005 at 05:52:54PM +0200, platanthera wrote: > On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote: > > I'm sorry I was not more specific. > > > > /var has 256MB > > /tmp has 256 > > / has 256 > > /usr has 4500MB > > newfs had been run on everything. > > > > ftp was passive. > > > > Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it > > anywhere. > > > > This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via > > ftp. I did burn a CD and install off of that in the end and the > > problem went away. > > > > > > -r > > > > On Saturday, 14 May 2005 at 16:19:27 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote: > > > > It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said > > > > > > > > /: write failed, filesystem is full > > > > > > > > this was after doing a newfs on /. Has anyone run into this > > > > problem? >=20 > it's not a problem of your fs layout. >=20 > i ran into the same problem during 5.4/i386/ftp installation. i can't =20 > recall the specific circumstances (probably i did something wrong), but= =20 > during the next attempt (after rebooting) it didn't reappear.=20 It's something that happens if you make a mistake in sysinstall and attempt to re-do an earlier step. For unknown reasons, sysinstall then ends up trying to install the system onto the memory-disk it uses as the root filesystem, rather than onto the actual hard drive. Cheers, Matthew --=20 Dr Matthew J Seaman MA, D.Phil. 8 Dane Court Manor School Rd PGP: http://www.infracaninophile.co.uk/pgpkey Tilmanstone Tel: +44 1304 617253 Kent, CT14 0JL UK --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iQCVAwUBQooCE5r7OpndfbmCAQJORAQAnLSx+WZwMDnI1ZcMcmJm+ubej24vpyor icG/UC+TowSP8Xa6eYlzIuyzNjJOMgSj346qIVEO8eX5y0V783KcvdwzHi+uN8KF 0iLaXPvMSyLCKaB3TZkXCT3AuOVOTTBSSBM5ip0ycs69vmT+hA//TGsr2WH62/Ho rN8pyUulOZo= =b8ib -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --M9NhX3UHpAaciwkO--