Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2002 15:28:35 -0400 From: Antoine Beaupre <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: "Scott M. Nolde" <scott@smnolde.com>, stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: "filesystem is full" during installation of 4.6.2-REL Message-ID: <5B9DBAD6-B14E-11D6-8D53-0050E4A0BB3F@anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <3D5D3918.1060006@cream.org>
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On Friday, August 16, 2002, at 01:40 PM, Andrew Boothman wrote: > Scott M. Nolde wrote: > >> Andrew Boothman(andrew@cream.org)@2002.08.16 03:12:25 +0000 >> >>> 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 >>> >> md0c is a memory disk and you're not actually writing to your hard >> drive, >> which would be ad0 or ad1. >> > Hmmm. Thats exactly what I thought. What does sysinstall use the memory > disk for? To uncompress the MFSROOT floppy, which contains the sysinstall script. In other words, sysinstall and friends are not ran straight from the floppy, but from a filesystem installed in the RAM of your machine (or so to speak), to which the kernel copies sysinstall before running it. > Is this the same memory disk contained on the mfsroot floppy? Yes. The memory disk contains the uncompressed mfsroot.gz file. > In which case why is it trying to unpack more files there? Probably because he wasn't able to mount your disk on /mnt, so /mnt ends up being on md0c instead of ad0a. A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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