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Hi,

I'm trying to install Slack 12 on an old machine with 20 GB hdd/32 MB
RAM. No matter how large I make /usr, the installation keeps giving a
message like "cannot write to disk because disk is full". Currently the
partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB). I've been
trying to install Expert (leaving out X) and Full, but so far each time
I get "disk full".
Previously, I installed Slack 11 without a problem using a similar
partitioning as above, but found out I needed a 2.6 kernel because of a
WiFi adapter I want to try out.

Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Thanks.

Huub <"v.niekerk at hccnet.nl"> writes:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Slack 12 on an old machine with 20 GB hdd/32 MB
> RAM. No matter how large I make /usr, the installation keeps giving a
> message like "cannot write to disk because disk is full". Currently
> the partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB). I've been
> trying to install Expert (leaving out X) and Full, but so far each
> time I get "disk full".
> Previously, I installed Slack 11 without a problem using a similar
> partitioning as above, but found out I needed a 2.6 kernel because of
> a WiFi adapter I want to try out.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Not really, but just a thought - did you format the partition as part of
the install? If not then Salckware may be trying to install on something
that IS full?


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> Currently the
> partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB).

only 100mb for / ???



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Huub wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Slack 12 on an old machine with 20 GB hdd/32 MB
> RAM. No matter how large I make /usr, the installation keeps giving a
> message like "cannot write to disk because disk is full". Currently
> the partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB). I've been
> trying to install Expert (leaving out X) and Full, but so far each
> time I get "disk full".
> Previously, I installed Slack 11 without a problem using a similar
> partitioning as above, but found out I needed a 2.6 kernel because of
> a WiFi adapter I want to try out.
>
I (probably) over partition my machines. This list (from /df -h/) may
give you some help figuring out what you need where

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 4.7G 386M 4.3G 9% /
/dev/sda5 4.7G 3.7G 1.1G 78% /usr
/dev/sda6 4.7G 2.9G 1.8G 62% /usr/local
/dev/sda7 4.7G 996M 3.7G 21% /home
/dev/sda8 9.4G 6.6G 2.8G 71% /opt
/dev/sda9 4.7G 489M 4.2G 11% /var
/dev/sda10 9.4G 1.8G 7.6G 19% /var/lib/mysql
/dev/sda11 47G 564M 47G 2% /spare00
/dev/sda12 47G 1.4G 46G 3% /spare01
/dev/sda13 47G 3.6G 44G 8% /spare02
/dev/sda14 41G 23G 19G 55% /var/lib/vmware
/dev/sda1 9.8G 6.9G 3.0G 70% /fat-c
tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm

Now this is a full-boat Slackware 12 installation (with X), and it has a
lot of stuff in //opt/ but it looks like root needs at least 400M?

Hope this helps.

> I (probably) over partition my machines. This list (from /df -h/) may
> give you some help figuring out what you need where
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda2 4.7G 386M 4.3G 9% /
> /dev/sda5 4.7G 3.7G 1.1G 78% /usr
> /dev/sda6 4.7G 2.9G 1.8G 62% /usr/local
> /dev/sda7 4.7G 996M 3.7G 21% /home
> /dev/sda8 9.4G 6.6G 2.8G 71% /opt
> /dev/sda9 4.7G 489M 4.2G 11% /var
> /dev/sda10 9.4G 1.8G 7.6G 19% /var/lib/mysql
> /dev/sda11 47G 564M 47G 2% /spare00
> /dev/sda12 47G 1.4G 46G 3% /spare01
> /dev/sda13 47G 3.6G 44G 8% /spare02
> /dev/sda14 41G 23G 19G 55% /var/lib/vmware
> /dev/sda1 9.8G 6.9G 3.0G 70% /fat-c
> tmpfs 503M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm
>
> Now this is a full-boat Slackware 12 installation (with X), and it has a
> lot of stuff in //opt/ but it looks like root needs at least 400M?
>
> Hope this helps.

Ok, this explains a lot. Also that I won't install Slack 12 on this
machine. Back to Slack 11. Thanks for the info.

Huub wrote:
>>
> Ok, this explains a lot. Also that I won't install Slack 12 on this
> machine. Back to Slack 11. Thanks for the info.
Maybe I didn't quite say it right -- I've got a GIS system (which is
huge) along with really huge geographic data files (one directory is
3.6G), OpenOffice, and a lot of non-distribution stuff in /opt -- you
ought to be able to install all of Slackware 12 (it's not that much
bigger than 11) in 20G without a problem (20G is, after all, a lot of
gig!). I don't install any add-on software in /usr (if I can help it),
preferring to install in /usr/local (which is a mounted partition). Just
make your root partition a little bigger, perhaps? Remember that some
stuff got moved around between 11 and 12. I have a laptop that I didn't
bother to partition (other than root and swap) and, with all the GIS and
other add-on stuff, the total use is 19G (the GIS data adds up to
roughly 5G). And, if you don't install X, well I'd think you'd have
plenty of space.

Just a thought.

On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 11:36:29 +0200, Huub wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I'm trying to install Slack 12 on an old machine with 20 GB hdd/32 MB
> RAM. No matter how large I make /usr, the installation keeps giving a
> message like "cannot write to disk because disk is full". Currently the
> partitioning is / (100 MB), /usr (15 GB), /home ((5 GB). I've been
> trying to install Expert (leaving out X) and Full, but so far each time
> I get "disk full".
> Previously, I installed Slack 11 without a problem using a similar
> partitioning as above, but found out I needed a 2.6 kernel because of a
> WiFi adapter I want to try out.
>
> Any idea what I'm doing wrong?

Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A lot of
things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of / ). I'd
suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem solved.



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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:09:18 -0500, Dan C wrote:

> Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A lot
> of things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of / ). I'd
> suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem solved.

Slackware-current as of a few days ago on a 36GB drive. 5GB for / is
really wasting space.

[duhring@maxwell ~]$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 2536028K 249748K 2286280K 10% /
/dev/sda5 766288K 55288K 711000K 8% /var
/dev/sda6 7323400K 4061720K 3261680K 56% /usr
/dev/sda7 1949656K 525848K 1423808K 27% /opt
/dev/sda8 22150780K 2519668K 19631112K 12% /home
tmpfs 1002728K 0K 1002728K 0% /dev/shm

On 04/30/08 15:09, Dan C wrote:

> Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A
> lot of things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of
> / ). I'd suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem
> solved.

100 MB are more than enough for a root partition in a (almost) full
installation if you put /boot, /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, and /var on
different ones.

Ciao
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 13:40:20 +0000, Giovanni wrote:

>> Isn't it obvious? A 100Mb / partition is not nearly big enough. A
>> lot of things get installed in / (or in subdirs which come off of
>> / ). I'd suggest making / about 5G and reduce /usr to 10G. Problem
>> solved.

> 100 MB are more than enough for a root partition in a (almost) full
> installation if you put /boot, /home, /opt, /tmp, /usr, and /var on
> different ones.

Well, no shit. Do you think most people do that? I don't.

Clearly the OP doesn't, and my answer was tailored to his question.


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