From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jun 15 22:22:06 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA15285 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:22:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (metriclient-2.uoregon.edu [128.223.172.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA15222 for ; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:21:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA02832; Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:21:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 1998 22:21:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM cc: FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: installing sources from CD-ROM : no inode free In-Reply-To: <19980613001934.A6938@gibet.prism.uvsq.fr> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sat, 13 Jun 1998, Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM wrote: > ~~~~~ > mkdir -p /usr/src/sys > ln -s /usr/src/sys /sys > cd / > cat /cdrom/src/ssys.* |tar xzvf - #(path given in the book seems not > #to corrrespond) > ~~~~~ > the files seems to extract in /usr/src/sys correctly, and then I get > succesion of errors like : > /usr : create /symlink failed, no inode free > tar: could not create file sys/sys/vlimit.h : no such file or directory > sys/sys/vnioctl.h `no inode free' means that the filesystem has run out of index nodes, which hold information about files. This is very, very odd for a new system. If this isn't an upgrade and you can spare it, try reinstalling, but blow away the old filesystem. If this is an upgrade, are you running news on this system? DO you have lots of small files? Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major NOTICE: Make sure your mailer replies to dwhite@resnet or I won't get it! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message