Subject: Re: 1.4.3 upgrade base package fails
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: Iggy Drougge <optimus@canit.se>
List: port-pmax
Date: 12/12/2001 15:15:47
Manuel Bouyer skrev:

>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.

No, I've managed to all but forget about that mechanism in UNIX FSes.
Still, I deleted src/sys, shouldn't that free up a whole lot of inodes?

Also, I've attempted to install from three different sites, so if the archive
is corrupted, it must be a global problem.

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