From owner-freebsd-stable Sat Dec 22 16:21: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from odin.ac.hmc.edu (Odin.AC.HMC.Edu [134.173.32.75]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 115ED37B417 for ; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:21:02 -0800 (PST) Received: (from brdavis@localhost) by odin.ac.hmc.edu (8.11.0/8.11.0) id fBN0KuW31236; Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:20:56 -0800 Date: Sat, 22 Dec 2001 16:20:56 -0800 From: Brooks Davis To: Joe Warner Cc: Doug White , stable@FreeBSD.ORG, David Wolfskill , Gunnar Flygt Subject: Re: IT'S FIXED!! Whew! (was:Make Installworld fills up / ...help!) Message-ID: <20011222162056.A28561@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> References: <3C22915C.F31E2C61@attbi.com> <20011220174037.A1142@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C2294FE.CB900677@attbi.com> <20011220180038.A3775@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <3C24B0B9.2597A8D9@attbi.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <3C24B0B9.2597A8D9@attbi.com>; from rootman22@attbi.com on Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:11:37AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Dec 22, 2001 at 09:11:37AM -0700, Joe Warner wrote: > OK, what Brooks recommended below ended up being the > culprit/solution to my woes! Luckily, 'cat' was the only > program that got whacked and I was able to continue with > 'make installworld' from where I left off. >=20 > The question still remains: "How did this happen to begin with? > ..and is it documented anywhere? I'm not sure if this is all that well documented, but the issue is that you ran out of space on /. This happens to people when they are either running with soft updates of their / partition is too small. The default has been raised in current, and I think in stable, but this is an ongoing issue. I wonder if we should consider adding a check to installworld/installkernel to refuse to install on very small / partitions since the failure mode is really ugly (losing files in /bin or /sbin). The only real solution to your space problems is to reparition. You might be able to find other temporary solutions, but in the end, that's it. If you do it, I recommend using at least 100MB for / and I'd probably suggest 150MB for plenty of margin (I use 256MB, but I want room for several sets of debug kernels and modules.) -- Brooks --=20 Any statement of the form "X is the one, true Y" is FALSE. PGP fingerprint 655D 519C 26A7 82E7 2529 9BF0 5D8E 8BE9 F238 1AD4 --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE8JSNnXY6L6fI4GtQRAi6OAKCqqgqLu3uxoUN0g657W6SznBBqwACgkmvC EvlOW+eudB84+5RG4FcLKHY= =sMXa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --ikeVEW9yuYc//A+q-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message