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Cc: Matt Smith <ratman6@charter.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free
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On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:02 -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> 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.

Indeed.  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/45565

Gavin