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Date:      Sun, 20 Aug 2006 03:00:38 +0300
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Ouch!  "write failed, file system is full"
Message-ID:  <20060820000038.GA3642@gothmog.pc>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178>
References:  <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178>

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On 2006-08-19 18:55, "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> wrote:
> How do I get out of this mess?
> 
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> Broken pipe
> 
> df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a     99183    98644    -7395   108%    /

First of all, start by trying to find out where all that space has gone,
by judicious use of du(1), i.e.:

    # cd /
    # du -xsk *

Then, when you have a good idea why your root filesystem is out of
space, backup and remove or move away any files that don't need to be
there :-)




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