Date: Sun, 02 Nov 1997 06:32:47 +0000 From: Jason Wells <jcwells@u.washington.edu> To: Charlie Root <root@e316.mhk.lu.se>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Message-ID: <3.0.3.32.19971102063247.007b4a40@jcwells.deskmail.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <199711020645.HAA01138@e316.mhk.lu.se>
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At 07:45 11/2/97 +0100, Charlie Root wrote: >hi again. >i'm having a problem when istalling ssh >gunzip says: >and that's not true. there's plenty of space... >what am I doing wrong now? :-/ OK. Just because you think you have space on your DISC does not mean you have space in a particular filesystem. Lets look at your error message. >Nov 2 07:43:27 e316 /kernel: pid 1126 (gunzip), uid 0 on /: file system full >Nov 2 07:43:27 e316 /kernel: pid 1126 (gunzip), uid 0 on /: file system full ^ look here _______| This is telling you that the root file system is full. The root file system is probably 30 meg or less. That would be easy to fill up. I am assuming that you used the default filesystems upon install. Let's look at another thing. >e316# gunzip ssh-1.2.20.tar.gz Charlie Root <root@e316.mhk.lu.se> This is telling me that you are using your root account. This is sometimes necessary of course. You did read the warnings about logging in as root, right? :) I take of my "root jacket" at every instance I do not absolutley need it. I advise you to do the same. Perhaps you are tryin to unzip this in the home directory of root? Move your tarball to a file in the /usr directory to unzip it and build it. Then install it. This will save you the trouble of filling up the root filesytem. Unless you did something very creative when installing, you should have space in the /usr filesystem to get ssh installed. If you are using your root filesystem for general storage and have filled up your root filesystem I recommend moving this general storage to a directory in the /usr filesystem. Aslo, see man du for disc usage. Later, Jason Wells
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