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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
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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