Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 08:36:42 -0400 From: Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu> To: Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au> Cc: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Subject: Re: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesystems broken Message-ID: <19971024083642.18571@crh.cl.msu.edu> In-Reply-To: <199710240723.RAA15535@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>; from Stephen McKay on Fri, Oct 24, 1997 at 05:23:41PM %2B1000 References: <19971023004136.21792@crh.cl.msu.edu> <199710240723.RAA15535@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
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On the subject of Re: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesystems broken, Stephen McKay stated:
> On Thursday, 23rd October 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:
>
> >I just installed 2.2.5-RELEASE on a large filesystem (24GB), while 2.2.2
> >and below fsck would check the disks just fine, with 2.2.5 I get a
> >
> >ln(something) [sorry, I know I should've written it down] cant allocate
> >42xxxxxx Help! Run FSCK manually
> >
> >Which is sort of a problem as I have 256mb in the machine :) I also have
> >no limits set either. Any ideas?
>
> I'd guess that you are being bitten by /etc/login.conf. The comments in it
> claim that 'daemon' is used by /etc/rc and 'daemon' has "datasize=32M". Try
> bumping this to 64M.
Yes, that was it. I'd like to take an assault rifle to the fellow who decided
the defaults for FreeBSD is so limited, especially considering in most cases
FreeBSD is installed as a one or two use system.
-Crh
Charles Henrich Michigan State University henrich@msu.edu
http://pilot.msu.edu/~henrich
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