arnuld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], excerpted below, on Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:04:47 +0530:
>> df/diskfree should give the mounted information as well as free, too, of >> course, but as with the others, I'm guessing you tried extracting the >> archive to either memory or the wrong partition. > > Is this the only reason for my problem? Well, I've learned to be rather careful using words like "only" and "all" without some sort of escape clause, since it takes only a single exception to disprove the case. However, running out of room is the case must of us are familiar with that would trigger that error (as should be obvious given you had essentially three people suggest the same cause), and the usual reason for that is that one is extracting to a location that didn't have the free space one expected -- because it's not the location one had in mind. Another possibility in the same vein... Are you sure you created your partitions correctly? IOW, you didn't make it say 40960 KB (40 MB) instead of 40960000-odd KB (40 GB), right? Again, the output from df should make such a mistake immediately clear, if you did. Yet another variant on the theme would be if you messed up fstab, assigning / to the small partition you intended for /boot, or something like that. >> "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the >> program, he is your master." Richard Stallman > > NOW, this had put a great impact on my brain..... (BTW, i respect RMS a > lot but never knew he said that, thanks for telling this to the world) It was in an interview I read on one of the computer mag sites. I used to include the link as well, but decided that was a bit heavy for a sig, so don't now. However, a bit of quick googling points to this from late 2004: http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html It's well worth reading, both on the freedom theme and because much of the material discussed, the freeing of Solaris and Java, is just as topical now if not more so than it was then, what with Java being GPLv2ed, and some hints coming out of Sun that it /might/ actually consider relicensing Solaris under the GPLv3 if it likes the look of the final license. What with Linux staying hard GPLv2 and the opposition of the Linux kernel hackers to GPLv3, if Solaris /does/ go GPLv3 along with most of the GNU software family, and with Tivoizing and the possible fallout from the MS/Novell deal, things could quickly get /very/ (as in /extremely/) interesting in the world of freedom software. (I had to delete several paragraphs and force myself to be content with only the above, or this could easily become a multi-hundred line post on that alone. =8^) -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman -- [email protected] mailing list
