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From: "Matt Smith" <ratman6@charter.net>
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Subject: RE: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free
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In this case I think the hard disk filled up during the install as I got
later: "couldn't create /usr/compat - no space left on device."

                         Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Hurd [mailto:shurd@sasktel.net] 
Sent: Sunday, November 06, 2005 9:02 PM
To: Matt Smith
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Subject: Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free

Matt Smith wrote:

>Trying to put FBSD 6.0-Stable on a box and the error in the subject
line
>(/create/symlink failed: no inodes free) comes up right after the
>filesystems are made and the transfer over FTP starts.  What causes
this
>error?
>  
>
I've found this tends to happen if the install is aborted then
restarted.