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Date:      Fri, 24 Oct 1997 17:23:41 +1000
From:      Stephen McKay <syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au>
To:        Charles Henrich <henrich@crh.cl.msu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org, syssgm@dtir.qld.gov.au
Subject:   Re: fsck (2.2.5-RELEASE) large filesystems broken 
Message-ID:  <199710240723.RAA15535@ogre.dtir.qld.gov.au>
In-Reply-To: <19971023004136.21792@crh.cl.msu.edu> from Charles Henrich at "Thu, 23 Oct 1997 04:41:36 %2B0000"
References:  <19971023004136.21792@crh.cl.msu.edu>

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On Thursday, 23rd October 1997, Charles Henrich wrote:

>I just installed 2.2.5-RELEASE on a large filesystem (24GB), while 2.2.2 and
>below fsck would check the disks just fine, with 2.2.5 I get a 
>
>ln(something) [sorry, I know I should've written it down]
>cant allocate 42xxxxxx 
>Help!  Run FSCK manually
>
>Which is sort of a problem as I have 256mb in the machine :)  I also have no
>limits set either.  Any ideas?

I'd guess that you are being bitten by /etc/login.conf.  The comments in
it claim that 'daemon' is used by /etc/rc and 'daemon' has "datasize=32M".
Try bumping this to 64M.

Stephen.



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