Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1998 13:46:48 -0500 From: Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net> To: "G. Adam Stanislav" <zen@buddhist.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: broken pipe Message-ID: <19981229134648.A1276@home> In-Reply-To: <3.0.6.32.19981229101429.008a44c0@mail.bfm.org>; from G. Adam Stanislav on Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:14:29AM -0600 References: <3.0.6.32.19981229101429.008a44c0@mail.bfm.org>
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Adam, I'm new to FreeBSD, buty here goes... To recover, you need to delete files until you have enough disk space. If you were installing the docs, a good place to look to delete files would be in the /usr/share/doc directory. Rebooting is rarely necessary unless you want to upgrade your kernel. In fact, if you are having a major problem, rebooting can be the absolutely worst thing you can do; as you found out. On Tue, Dec 29, 1998 at 10:14:29AM -0600, G. Adam Stanislav wrote: > Hello, > > I have my FreeBSD 2.2.8 installed on a small 80 meg partition at the end of > my hard disk, so I only installed the binaries and man pages. > > Well, last night I decided to try to also install the docs, thinking that > if I did not have enough disk space, FreeBSD would just say so. > > I was installing via ftp, and sure enough, ran out of disk space. The > installation aborted, and I got a message saying something about a "broken > pipe". I ran the df command and was told my disk was 103% full, and had > negative free space (how can that be???). > > I deleted the contents of the /tmp directory, but df gave me the same > response. I deleted several other files, same thing. > > Having come from a Windows background, I figured I had to reboot. That is > when all hell broke out. After rebooting, a number of demons just kept > sending messages to my screen that they did not have enough disk space. > Because those messages were constantly scrolling my screen, I was at a > total loss. > > I finally figured that while FreeBSD rarely crashes (unlike Windows which > does it all the time), when it does crash, it seems like the end of the world. > > Not knowing what else to do, I ended up reinstalling FreeBSD 2.2.8 from > scratch (losing everything I had on the system before, I mean in that 80 > meg partition only, not on my Windows partition). > > Now I have a couple questions for future reference: > > 1. If this happens again (broken pipe), how do I recover? > > 2. How do I tell the daemons to quit sending all those messages? I can read > them the first time they send them, why do they keep repeating them? > > 3. Where does a pipe store its temporary data? I assume if I could have > just deleted that somehow, I would have been back in business without > having to start from scratch again. > > Adam > > ===> Whiz Kid Technomagic <=== > http://www.whizkidtech.net/ > The resource center for webmasters and web users > Winner of the Starting Point Hot Site award > Winner of the Lighthouse Award > Home of the Web Magic Award > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Jim Foltz <aa204@acorn.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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