[7869] in Athena Bugs
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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (probe@MIT.EDU)
Sat Aug 3 02:00:11 1991
From: probe@MIT.EDU
Date: Sat, 3 Aug 91 02:00:15 -0400
To: testers@MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@MIT.EDU, network@MIT.EDU, release-73@MIT.EDU
Never mind... I found the problem in my last message. During the update,
the root comes within 50k of overflowing the physical disk (111%). Enough
daemons are still present on the machine that lock the inodes until reboot,
such that additional binaries will not fit.
(I knew there wasn't the space... I just forgot why... if someone knows how
to free locked inodes of running programs without crashing the system or
if "track" were allowed to be run a second time on all reboots, even on
private machines, then it would not be a problem... though the latter would
take a bit of time to write the scripts for the "double-update" procedure).
-R
