/: create/symlink failed, no inodes free

Giorgos Keramidas keramida at ceid.upatras.gr
Tue Nov 22 16:14:57 GMT 2005


On 2005-11-22 15:34, Martin Zibert <schpeko at gmail.com> wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> today i was installing freebsd 6.0 and got this error: /: create/symlink
> failed, no inodes free
> I used 2 disks (one 4GB and the other 8GB) but got the same error.
> How can i fix this problem? The disks were formated through fbsd sysinstall
> at install.

Your root filesystem is full.  If this happened because you let
sysinstall pick the partition sizes, delete the partitions it has
created and start over with manually created partitions.

- Giorgos



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