Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 16:31:38 +0100 From: Martin Zibert <schpeko@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /: create/symlink failed, no inodes free Message-ID: <6334c6e20511220731p16c1a444g49edcdd6655096fb@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <200511221526.jAMFQ6tH097360@casselton.net> References: <6334c6e20511220634o44b897dcqc278f7673d2d3356@mail.gmail.com> <200511221526.jAMFQ6tH097360@casselton.net>
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yes, "emergency holographic shell" starts, but df is not installed. alt+f2 shows: pid 128 (cpio), uid 0 inumber 184 on /: out of inodes also, there were some "no left space" errors. i'm out of ideas.. On 11/22/05, Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net> wrote: > > > today i was installing freebsd 6.0 and got this error: /: create/symlin= k > > failed, no inodes free > > I used 2 disks (one 4GB and the other 8GB) but got the same error. > > How can i fix this problem? The disks were formated through fbsd > sysinstall > > at install. > > You have run out of inodes. When you create the new / filesystem, > you may need to add the option to increase the inodes generated. > see newfs(8) option -i. > > Is the install process far enough along that it started the "emergency > holographic shell"? If so, then you should be able to go to the shell > (Alt-F4) > and see if "df" has been installed: > > # df -i > > >
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