From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun May 25 15:16:11 2003 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 E9E7F37B404 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 15:16:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail1.bluewin.ch (mail1.bluewin.ch [195.186.1.74]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9CC243F85 for ; Sun, 25 May 2003 15:16:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from raphael@computer-rental.ch) Received: from computer-rental.ch (81.62.157.165) by mail1.bluewin.ch (Bluewin AG 6.7.018) id 3ECDF74F0003CA6A; Sun, 25 May 2003 22:16:09 +0000 Date: Mon, 26 May 2003 00:15:38 +0200 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552) To: "Tom Verbreyt" From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Rapha=EBl_Marmier?= In-Reply-To: <44764.134.58.253.193.1053853481.squirrel@webmail.priorweb.be> Message-Id: <6A183AD4-8EFE-11D7-B5E2-000393D67E4A@computer-rental.ch> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.552) cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Installation problems: filesystem is (not) full 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: Sun, 25 May 2003 22:16:12 -0000 Le dimanche, 25 mai 2003, =E0 11:04 Europe/Zurich, Tom Verbreyt a =E9crit = : > > 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=20 trying to install FreeBSD on a laptop on the first partition while=20 keeping the extended partition (where an image of windows was stored=20 for future restauration). I tried every possible scenarion I could=20 think of, to no avail. I tried to investigate a bit. It looks like the installation program=20 was trying to install files to the actual root fs, rather than on the=20 new filesystems mounted under /mnt. Of course, that root mfs fills up=20 in a second... The fix for me was to take write down the partition table on a scrap of=20= paper, suppress all but the intended partition (slice), set its type to=20= FreeBSD, install (this time it works), then restore the other=20 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=20 partitions (slices) are already present on a system: the disklabel=20 utility refuses quite often to create volumes, either in automatic or=20 manual mode. Deleting the whole partition (slices) table always solved=20= the problem. Raphael Marmier=