Several people have written to this list about buildit.s bombing because of insufficient space on the floppy. Buildit.s would fail even when there was clearly enough room (e.g., building a new disk immediately following a pristine install). It appears that cpio does not correctly record all of the hard links during a buildit.s. Rather sometimes cpio creates another separate, space occupying copy of the linked file, leading to bloat in usr.cpio.bz2 and complaints by buildit.s of insufficient disk space. For example in my case, cpio did not create a hard link from usr/man/ce to usr/man/emacs (as is the case in /2/usr/man), but actually created two distinct files. I observed this behavior while building tomsrtbt under itself as well as on my Redhat 5.2 system.
