Date: Tue, 17 May 2005 15:39:16 +0100 From: Matthew Seaman <m.seaman@infracaninophile.co.uk> To: platanthera <platanthera@web.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4 Message-ID: <20050517143916.GA22662@lack-of-gravitas.thebunker.net> In-Reply-To: <200505151752.54984.platanthera@web.de> References: <20050514165453.GA2287@mint-square.mit.edu> <200505142019.j4EKJS4S021948@clunix.cl.msu.edu> <20050514213011.GA23191@no-knife.mit.edu> <200505151752.54984.platanthera@web.de>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--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--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20050517143916.GA22662>