write failed filesystem full on fresh install of 5.4

platanthera platanthera at web.de
Sun May 15 08:54:41 PDT 2005


On Saturday 14 May 2005 23:30, Ross Adams Lippert wrote:
> I'm sorry I was not more specific.
>
> /var has 256MB
> /tmp has 256
> / has 256
> /usr has 4500MB
> newfs had been run on everything.
>
> ftp was passive.
>
> Since base is about 46MB of material, it seems it could put it
> anywhere.
>
> This occurs 3% of the way into the extration of base into / via
> ftp.  I did burn a CD and install off of that in the end and the
> problem went away.
>
>
> -r
>
> On Saturday, 14 May 2005 at 16:19:27 -0400, Jerry McAllister wrote:
> > > It was extracting the distribution into / over ftp and said
> > >
> > > /: write failed, filesystem is full
> > >
> > > this was after doing a newfs on /.  Has anyone run into this
> > > problem?

it's not a problem of your fs layout.

i ran into the same problem during 5.4/i386/ftp installation. i can't  
recall the specific circumstances (probably i did something wrong), but 
during the next attempt (after rebooting) it didn't reappear. 

> >
> > You are going to have to give more information.
> > What do your file systems look like?
> >
> > Sure I have had that happen when what I was ftp-ing was too big to
> > fit where I was trying to put it.   Then I had to either find or
> > make a bigger space or change my mind about what I wantd to move
> > there.
> >
> > Maybe yo udidn't make / big enough or made only a / big enough
> > for stuff that will be in root, but didn't make a separate /usr and
> > /var, etc for things what will go in them.
> >
> > > I am not subscribed.  If I should be tell me.  If not, put me
> > > in the cc-line.
> >
> > It would be good if you could subscribe.
> > You may need to follow some of these threads.
> >
> > ////jerry
> >
> > > -r
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