From owner-freebsd-questions  Fri May 23 12:21:54 1997
Return-Path: <owner-questions>
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id MAA10196
          for questions-outgoing; Fri, 23 May 1997 12:21:54 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.cdrom.com [204.216.27.21])
          by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA10191
          for <questions@freebsd.com>; Fri, 23 May 1997 12:21:52 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from horton.iaces.com (root@horton.iaces.com [204.147.87.98])
	by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA21652
	for <questions@freebsd.com>; Fri, 23 May 1997 12:21:42 -0700 (PDT)
Received: (from proot@localhost) by horton.iaces.com (8.8.5/8.8.4) id OAA26113; Fri, 23 May 1997 14:21:44 -0500 (CDT)
From: "Paul T. Root" <proot@horton.iaces.com>
Message-Id: <199705231921.OAA26113@horton.iaces.com>
Subject: Re: "System full"? / Linux emulation
To: randyd@nconnect.net (Randy DuCharme)
Date: Fri, 23 May 1997 14:21:44 -0500 (CDT)
Cc: stefan.veith@mail.online-club.de, questions@freebsd.com
In-Reply-To: <199705231929.OAA00239@egyptian.microxp.com> from Randy DuCharme at "May 23, 97 02:18:33 pm"
X-Organization: !nterprise Networking Services - ACES
X-Phone: (612) 663-1979
X-Fax: (612) 663-8030
X-Page: (800) SKY-PAGE PIN: 537-7270
X-Address: 200 S. 5th St., Suite 1100
X-Address: Minneapolis, MN 55402
X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)]
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
X-Loop: FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk

In a previous message, Randy DuCharme said:
> 
> 
> Greetings,
> 
> FWIW When I installed the linux compat package it installed them to
> /compat/linux....  .  With a 20M / file system I quickly ran out of space
> and got all sorts of 'file system full' error messages. I moved 
> /compat/linux to /usr, created the appropriate links, and the problems
> disappeared.  Could this be the problem, perhaps?
> 
> Randy DuCharme
> 

Oh sure. If / is full, nothing is going to work well if at all. 
/tmp is used in compiling, you might consider mounting or symlinking
it to somewhere else. I use MFS for /tmp (memory file system. 

So are both problems gone since you did this?


-- 
"Are you Sarah Conner?"