From owner-freebsd-current Sun Jan 3 15:22:28 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20516 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:22:28 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ceia.nordier.com (m1-24-dbn.dial-up.net [196.34.155.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20506 for ; Sun, 3 Jan 1999 15:22:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rnordier@nordier.com) Received: (from rnordier@localhost) by ceia.nordier.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id BAA01063; Mon, 4 Jan 1999 01:20:45 +0200 (SAT) From: Robert Nordier Message-Id: <199901032320.BAA01063@ceia.nordier.com> Subject: Re: make release (almost) No space left on device In-Reply-To: <199901032301.SAA14463@bb01f39.unx.sas.com> from "John W. DeBoskey" at "Jan 3, 99 06:01:04 pm" To: jwd@unx.sas.com (John W. DeBoskey) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 01:20:43 +0200 (SAT) Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, brdean@unx.sas.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL31 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id PAA20512 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG John W. DeBoskey wrote: > In trying to figure out what grew too large... I've started getting > confused. I modified doFS.sh to print out what is being copied onto > the floppy... What I find is: > > + mount /dev/vn0c /mnt > + [ -d /R/stage/boot.std ] > + set -e > + cd /R/stage/boot.std > + find . -print > . ./boot ./boot/boot0 ./boot/nb8390.rom ./boot/nb8390.com ./boot/nb3c509.rom ./boot/nb3c509.com ./boot/loader ./boot/fbsdboot.exe ./boot/cdboot ./boot/boot2 ./boot/boot1 ./boot/rawboot ./boot/boot.conf ./boot/loader.config ./boot.config ./kernel.gz ./boot.help ./kernel.config + set -e > + cd /R/stage/boot.std > + find+ cpio . -dump -print /mnt > > > /mnt: write failed, file system is full > cpio: write error: No space left on device > *** Error code 1 > > > Well, cdboot by itself is a major problem.... It seems to me we're not > putting what we think we are onto the floppy... Either doFS.sh needs to > be smarter, or someone is starting to populate the boot subdir with > things that didn't used to be there... > > Comments? Critiques? Helpful clues? You may need to clean out your /boot directory. There was a brief period recently when the old boot code was installed to /boot by mistake; and a "make world" during that time would have populated it incorrectly. (See src/sys/i386/boot/Makefile.inc 1.4.) -- Robert Nordier To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message