Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2003 23:24:17 +0930 From: "W. Sierke" <ws@senet.com.au> To: "Jason End" <bensnephew@yahoo.com>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: write failed, disk is full Message-ID: <025701c2f6c3$db623fe0$0264a8c0@regional.net.au> References: <20030330131221.3273.qmail@web80407.mail.yahoo.com>
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From: "Jason End" <bensnephew@yahoo.com> > Installing 4.7 through ftp, I get a series of errors > that say things like: > / write failed. disk is full > failed to create /usr/src disk is full > > The disk is new, and certainly isn't full, so I'm > thinking it could be a problem of where I've place the > partitions on the disk. > The disk is a new 120Gb WD1200JB and the relevant > partitions are as such (in this order): > 10gb ntfs > 3gb freebsd (/) > 800mb freebsd (swap) > 55gb freebsd (/usr) I had a similar experience, albeit on a much smaller partition. Just to be sure, check that you haven't run out of inodes somewhere (assuming you can boot into a console): df -i I recently talked with someone on IRC who had just had a similar experience. I'm wondering if there might be an "issue" here in that perhaps the default block/fragment size being used during new installations is too small? Wayne
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