"Iggy Drougge" wrote:

> 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.

I build the 1.4.3 release, and extracted and ran the sets before
they were uploaded.  Are you sure that /usr/src isn't on a separate
partition?  What does "df -i" show?

Simon.
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