[SunHELP] pkgadd errno 28

[Nicholas Dronen]

The partition is just a start and end point in a disk storage device.
The filesystem, in contrast, is a virtual entity that, when it's in
a consistent state, knows how many blocks are available to it (e.g.,
the number of blocks in the partition) and how many are used, etc.
It is the filesystem that determines that it is not "able" to
write any more blocks to the device without clobbering another
block, and so we say that the filesystem is full.  

On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 12:37:50PM -0500, Big Endian wrote:
> >On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 11:20:04AM -0600, Campbell, Russell (BAE Sys) wrote:
> >>
> >>  While using pkgadd I get errno 28, no space left on device.  What
> >>  specifically is this referring to?  Is it the harddisk, disk partition, swap
> >>  file?  I am using Solaris 7.
> >
> >It's not an entire disk, or even a partition. 
> >It's a filesystem: probably /, /var, or /usr. 
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> its a partition... most of those filesystesm are partitions.  No 
> space left on device means a partition is full.
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