/create/symlink failed: no inodes free

David Kirchner dpk at dpk.net
Mon Nov 7 08:42:47 PST 2005


On 11/7/05, Gavin Atkinson <gavin.atkinson at ury.york.ac.uk> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 20:02 -0600, Stephen Hurd wrote:
> > Matt Smith wrote:
> >
> > >Trying to put FBSD 6.0-Stable on a box and the error in the subject line
> > >(/create/symlink failed: no inodes free) comes up right after the
> > >filesystems are made and the transfer over FTP starts.  What causes this
> > >error?
> > >
> > >
> > I've found this tends to happen if the install is aborted then restarted.
>
> Indeed.  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=bin/45565
>
> Gavin

Can one of you post a followup to the bug stating that it's still
present in the most recent version of the OS? I'm hoping that the bug
wasn't just forgotten but 3  years is a long time, I think there are a
lot of things I've forgotten in that period. :)


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