Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 00:15:38 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Marmier?= <raphael@computer-rental.ch> To: "Tom Verbreyt" <tom@abwaerts.be> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems: filesystem is (not) full Message-ID: <6A183AD4-8EFE-11D7-B5E2-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> In-Reply-To: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be>
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Le dimanche, 25 mai 2003, à 11:04 Europe/Zurich, Tom Verbreyt a écrit : > > write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 240640 bytes) > unable to transfer the base distribution from acd0 > / : write failed, filesystem is full > > and on VT4: > > pid 131 (cpio), uid 0 inumber 171 on /: filesystem is full > You are not alone. It happened to me a number of time with 4.8. I was trying to install FreeBSD on a laptop on the first partition while keeping the extended partition (where an image of windows was stored for future restauration). I tried every possible scenarion I could think of, to no avail. I tried to investigate a bit. It looks like the installation program was trying to install files to the actual root fs, rather than on the new filesystems mounted under /mnt. Of course, that root mfs fills up in a second... The fix for me was to take write down the partition table on a scrap of paper, suppress all but the intended partition (slice), set its type to FreeBSD, install (this time it works), then restore the other partitions (slices) in the table. Don't forget to backup your data before doing that! slightly off-topic, I've had other installation problems when other partitions (slices) are already present on a system: the disklabel utility refuses quite often to create volumes, either in automatic or manual mode. Deleting the whole partition (slices) table always solved the problem. Raphael Marmierhelp
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