Subject: Re: 1.4.3 upgrade base package fails
To: Iggy Drougge <optimus@canit.se>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/12/2001 22:16:14
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:13:25AM +0100, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> I decided to upgrade my 1.4.1 system to 1.4.3. Downloaded and booted
> install.gz, fetching some sets (kern, base, etc, misc) via FTP. When the base
> package was well into extracting, it would complain that the disk was full. I
> deleted some junk on the /usr partition. Still, I thought it was quite odd,
> since the partitions were only ~80% full according to df. I made another
> attempt, but the base.tgz extraction process failed in the same way.
> In order to save more space, I mounted an NFS filesystem with the sets, so
> that they wouldn't occupy any space on the /usr partition. Never mind that, it
> still failed. So I deleted /src/sys, freeing a lot of space. Now, /usr was
> only ~60% full. And it's just an upgrade, the filesystem shouldn't get much
> bigger than it was at 1.4.1.

Did you check if it wasn't running out of inodes ? I think the message is
the same.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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