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Cc: Matt Smith <ratman6@charter.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org,
	Stephen Hurd <shurd@sasktel.net>
Subject: Re: /create/symlink failed: no inodes free
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On 11/7/05, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson@ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> 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 li=
ne
> > >(/create/symlink failed: no inodes free) comes up right after the
> > >filesystems are made and the transfer over FTP starts.  What causes th=
is
> > >error?
> > >
> > >
> > I've found this tends to happen if the install is aborted then restarte=
d.
>
> Indeed.  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=3Dbin/45565
>
> Gavin

Can one of you post a followup to the bug stating that it's still
present in the most recent version of the OS? I'm hoping that the bug
wasn't just forgotten but 3  years is a long time, I think there are a
lot of things I've forgotten in that period. :)