From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Aug 15 19: 9:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DDAD37B400 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:09:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from blueyonder.co.uk (pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.53.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AFC743E65 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:09:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from andrew@cream.org) Received: from pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk ([127.0.0.1]) by blueyonder.co.uk with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.757.75); Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:09:16 +0100 Received: from cream.org (unverified [62.31.80.97]) by pcow034o.blueyonder.co.uk (Content Technologies SMTPRS 4.2.9) with ESMTP id for ; Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:09:15 +0100 Message-ID: <3D5C5F89.8050006@cream.org> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 03:12:25 +0100 From: Andrew Boothman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.1a) Gecko/20020611 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: stable@freebsd.org Subject: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [I was going to post this to -questions but figured that most discussion of the ata problems took place on -stable and most interested people would probably be reading -stable] Hi everyone! I've got a strange problem installing 4.6.2-RELEASE on an ageing K6-233 system. Searching the archives and googling hasn't turned up anything useful. On first boot of the 4.6.2 floppies I started getting the "READ_BIG" errors on the systems cd-rom drive. Fortunately, I had no plan to use the drive, so I simply disconnected it, and a subsequent boot went flawlessly. However, during an FTP install from ftp.uk.freebsd.org when it reaches 'chunk 4' the system displays a message saying "Write failure on transfer (wrote -1 bytes of 240260 bytes)" and "/: write failed, filesystem is full" VTY1 shows : . . bin/ls bin/mkdev bin/mv pid 72 (cpio), uid 0 on /: filesystem is full /stand/cpio: write error: No space left on drive /stand/gunzip: failed fwrite A quick /stand/df on VTY4 shows 101% capacity on /dev/md0c mounted on / but just 1% capacity on /dev/ad0s1a mounted on /mnt. I've never delved this far into a sysinstall installation before, but it sounds like it is failing on unpacking files into a memory disk? What could have caused this problem? A reboot and going through the installation process again brought exactly the same failure in exactly the same place. Many thanks for any pointers and help. Andrew. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message