File system full? - PC-BSD Forums

miggols99 · #1 05-04-2008, 05:41 PM

When I install PC-BSD it hangs on around 7% and the terminal says something like "File system full". The installer says something about tar...can't remember exactly what it said. Hope you guys can help me fix this...

TerryP · #2 05-04-2008, 06:04 PM

PC-BSD requires about 4-5GB of space if I recall correctly, and creating custom partitions in the slice rather then using the defaults (/ and swap) effect how it is distributed.

miggols99 · #3 05-04-2008, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by TerryP

PC-BSD requires about 4-5GB of space if I recall correctly, and creating custom partitions in the slice rather then using the defaults (/ and swap) effect how it is distributed.

Yes, and the partition is 20GB. The swap is 2GB (that big so I can suspend to ram).

DragnLord · #4 05-04-2008, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by miggols99

Yes, and the partition is 20GB. The swap is 2GB (that big so I can suspend to ram).

If you created custom slices you may not have allocated enough space.

miggols99 · #5 05-04-2008, 07:24 PM

What exactly do you mean by "custom slices"?

TerryP · #6 05-04-2008, 08:52 PM

Disk layout is slightly different on FreeBSDs i386/AMD64 then Windows or Linux.

One 'slice' called a primary partition in normal speak, is identified as driver disk# s slice# -- i.e. ad0s1 -> first pata disks first slice or 'primary partition'

Within a slice, FreeBSD can place a bsd 'partition' -- kind of like how dos extended partitions work but much better, a letter is suffixed onto the slice number, i.e. ad0s1a read right to left -> partition a, slice 1, drive 0, 'ad' device (basically ide/ata disks).

Default for PC-BSD is one slice containing two bsd partitions: a and b with a mounted as the root (/) file system and b attached as swap space.

The installer allows this to be customized (including a checkbox for encrypting swap :evil: ).

My (PC-BSD v1.5.1) laptop for example looks like this:

Code:

Terry@dixie$ df -lh                                                       20:41
Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/ad0s1a    9.7G    316M    8.6G     3%    /
devfs          1.0K    1.0K      0B   100%    /dev
/dev/ad0s1f     19G    5.4G     12G    30%    /usr
/dev/ad0s1e     19G    239M     18G     1%    /usr/home
/dev/ad0s1g    496M    133M    323M    29%    /var
/dev/ad0s1h     22G     42K     21G     0%    /tmp
linprocfs      4.0K    4.0K      0B   100%    /compat/linux/proc
Terry@dixie$                                                              20:51

Because I created the 'f', 'e', 'g', and 'h' partitions in the FreeBSD slice during the installation.

What DragnLord means is, in such a layout it's possible to not allocate enough space, for example on my system /usr is over 5GB, it wouldn't be possible if ad0s1f only had 500MB of space allocated for itself.

miggols99 · #7 05-04-2008, 09:50 PM

Thanks for the explanation TerryP

Anyway...I ran the PC-BSD installer again but with verbose logging. I managed to get this:

Code:

acd0: FAILURE - READ_BIG MEDIUM ERROR asc=0x11 ascq=0x05 g_vfs_done(): acd0[READ(offset=15495168, length=65536] error=5

And that repeats a few times. What does it mean?

TerryP · #8 05-05-2008, 12:08 AM

I think it has some thing to do with the how the file systems on CD-ROMs are handled, but I think it's generally harmless.

(note: cd-rom drives are not my area of expertise)

miggols99 · #9 05-05-2008, 09:05 AM

I'm still getting

Code:

/: File system full

In the terminal...and I've allocated at least 18GB of space for it, and even tried just using the default options. But it always fails at the same time...