Re: anaconda running out of disk space [was Re: Disk Druid - Fedora flame #1]

From: Gene Heskett (gene.heskett_at_verizon.net)
Date: 01/20/05

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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 23:35:21 -0500

    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.

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