From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 10:42:10 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 0E38137B404 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:42:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from rwcrmhc11.comcast.net (rwcrmhc11.comcast.net [204.127.198.35]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 20C0243F3F for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:42:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsduser@comcast.net) Received: from comcast.net (12-225-141-88.client.attbi.com[12.225.141.88](untrusted sender)) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc11) with SMTP id <2003081617420801300oq7vqe> (Authid: animotions); Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:42:08 +0000 Message-ID: <3F3E6CEE.4020603@comcast.net> Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 10:42:06 -0700 From: K Anderson User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i386; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Denis References: <001501c363fd$23d60490$39255250@comp> In-Reply-To: <001501c363fd$23d60490$39255250@comp> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NTFS filesystem in hard, but: @/:write failed, filesystem is 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: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 17:42:10 -0000 Denis wrote: > Hi! > > Does anybody explain me why i can't install FreeBSD on new HDD? > I have just NTFS hard drive formatted, but when i start freebsd install i see next: > Probing devices (this can take a while) > And next: > /:write falied, filesystem is full > What is it? > What I must do next? > > Thanks. > Denis. Off the top of my head, I could be wrong here though. If you haven't given up some space on that NTFS hard drive you are not going to get anywhere. By space I mean some unpartitioned area of the hard drive that will have enough free space to meet the demands of your freebsd install. You'll most likely need some sort of partioning utility to shrink a NTFS partition down. The other possability is you did make a partition (slice in FreeBSD parlance) and indeed ran out of space and all them bits were getting squished together and *poof* filled up your file system. You'll need to make more room. I'm not sure how much space is required for a FreeBSD install, you can check the documentation for that, and then make a slice or slices the combined size you'll need. And don't forget about swap space. HTH