<![CDATA[Newb in trouble…/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full]]>I have an esxi pfsense setup. The start of the issue occurred when i removed one of hardrives from the server. I readded the harddisk in a couple minutes. I removed it just to check it out. I have a new harddisk and wasnt able to get it into the bay. I wanted to compare it to a harddisk that was already in the server. needless to say, i wasnt able to get the new harddisk working.  :-[ . I have sense removed pfsense and readded  to the vm back to esxi. I still have issues accessing the webgui. I keep getting the above error when i try to upgrade to 2.3. I am not sure what to do next sense i have this newb hurdle to overcome and i dont see anything specifically for my issue. I would appreciate any help or links..Thanks!

*** Welcome to pfSense 2.2.6-RELEASE-cdrom (amd64) on pfSense ***

WAN (wan)      -> em0        -> v4/DHCP4: *******/24
LAN (lan)      -> em1        -> v4: 192.168.3.1/24
0) Logout (SSH only)                  9) pfTop

  1. Assign Interfaces                10) Filter Logs

  2. Set interface(s) IP address      11) Restart webConfigurator

  3. Reset webConfigurator password    12) pfSense Developer Shell

  4. Reset to factory defaults        13) Upgrade from console

  5. Reboot system                    14) Disable Secure Shell (sshd)

  6. Halt system                      15) Restore recent configuration

  7. Ping host                        16) Restart PHP-FPM

  8. Shell

  9. Install pfSense to a hard drive, etc.

Enter an option: 13

Starting the pfSense console firmware update system..

  1. Update from a URL
  2. Update from a local file
    Q) Quit

Please select an option to continue: 1

Enter the URL to the .tgz or .img.gz update file.
Type 'auto' to use https://updates.pfsense.org/_updaters/amd64/latest.tgz

auto

Fetching file…    6%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            10%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full

/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            20%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            30%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            40%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full

/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            50%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            60%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full

/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            70%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full

/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            80%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                            90%
/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full

/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full                                                                                                                                          100%
Fetching sha256...
URL sha256: d4900442b052c8dff4a9703e232b54ec825d40f7782b71d76a0f9ddaadfd40fa

Downloaded file sha256: d35fbcd101687d50bb0b8dea3eb5421a49b50c1a5a78eb8f7e9612485c27bc6f

sha256 checksum does not match.  Cancelling upgrade.

[2.2.6-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: df -hi
Filesystem                          Size    Used  Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused  Mounted on
/dev/iso9660/PFSENSE                295M    295M      0B  100%      0    0  100%  /
devfs                              1.0K    1.0K      0B  100%      0    0  100%  /dev
/dev/md0                            19M    19M  -1.5M  108%    140  2.9k    5%  /tmp
/dev/md1                            31M    18M    12M    60%    177  4.4k    4%  /var
/dev/md2                            19M    8.0M    11M    43%    403  2.7k  13%  /etc
/dev/md3                            31M    984K    27M    3%      7  4.6k    0%  /usr/local/etc
/dev/md4                            5.4M    28K    4.9M    1%      5  1.0k    0%  /conf
/conf                              5.4M    28K    4.9M    1%      5  1.0k    0%  /cf/conf
/dev/md5                            5.4M    8.0K    5.0M    0%      2  1.0k    0%  /home
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/usr            314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /usr
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/root          314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /root
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/bin            314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /bin
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/sbin          314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /sbin
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/boot          314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /boot
<above>:/tmp/unionfs/confdefault    314M    314M  -1.5M  100%    140  2.9k    5%  /conf.default
devfs                              1.0K    1.0K      0B  100%      0    0  100%  /var/dhcpd/dev
[2.2.6-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root: du -skh * | sort -n
12M    firmware.tgz
[2.2.6-RELEASE][admin@pfSense.localdomain]/root:</above></above></above></above></above></above>

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/topic/113904/newb-in-trouble-tmp-write-failed-filesystem-is-fullRSS for NodeWed, 11 Mar 2026 22:05:29 GMTSat, 01 Apr 2017 16:13:35 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Newb in trouble…/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full on Sat, 01 Apr 2017 17:31:28 GMT]]>Thanks Heper,
I forgot option 99 and was working off the live cd.  Still working on other things but I should be okay for now. Thanks again for the reply.

]]>https://forum.netgate.com/post/690551https://forum.netgate.com/post/690551Sat, 01 Apr 2017 17:31:28 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Newb in trouble…/tmp: write failed, filesystem is full on Sat, 01 Apr 2017 16:23:55 GMT]]>you are running a live-cd, not an install. live-cd's don't update.

remove the .iso from your vm-settings, so it boots the virtual harddrive instead of the iso

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