On Wednesday 19 January 2005 23:12, Matthew Miller wrote: >On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 11:07:27PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> I'm referring to the installer (its name is anaconda?) bailing out >> after inserting the 2nd cd, bailing out for lack of (IIRC) "media >> space". > >Yeah; anaconda is the installer. > >> I made a 100M /boot on /dev/hdb1, a 50M /dos on /dev/hdb2, a 4GB >> on /dev/hdb3 I intend to use as /root eventually, a 4GB /home >> on /dev/hdb5, a 1GB swap on /dev/hdb6, a 3GB /var on /dev/hdb7, >> and the rest of the disk, about 33GB as / > >That sounds reasonable (with the earlier caveat about your plans for > /root). > >> When it bailed out and gave me the reboot as the only choice, I >> inserted the rescue disk as it was rebooting, got a shell and >> mounted each partition to /mnt/hdbboot, /mnt/hdbroot, >> /mnt/hdbhome, etc, etc till they were all mounted, but none of the >> partitions on the disk was more than 10% full, most at 2%, maybe >> 3%. The only one a df said was full is /tmp/loop0, about 175M >> which shows as 100% full. Everything else has oodles of room. The >> box only has a half a gig of very thoroughly tested ram in it. >> And I haven't the foggiest where this 175M /tmp/loop0 actually >> resides, but I suspect in memory. > >If you wouldn't mind trying this experiment again, could you do > exactly the same thing, but instead of rebooting to the rescue > disk, hit ctrl-alt-f2 while the out of space error message is still > on the screen? Then get the results of df and of mount at that > point. Yes, although it does seem like a waste of time. Tommorrow though. >-- >Matthew Miller mattdm@xxxxxxxxxx > <http://www.mattdm.org/> Boston University Linux ------> > <http://linux.bu.edu/> -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
