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Date: Wed, 1 Oct 1997 08:51:07 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Alex Weeks <Alex_Weeks@capitalland.com>
Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: file system full
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On Tue, Sep 30, 1997 at 05:36:16PM -0500, Alex Weeks wrote:
> I am getting the following message on my console and in my daily log file.
>
> pid 988 (mail.local), uid 0 on /: file system full
>
> but, df returns the following:
>
> /dev/sd0a	50%
> /dev/sd0s1f	11%
> /dev/sd1	56%
> procfs		100%

It would be nice to see the complete output of df.  For example, what
50% of / represents.  I'd guess, though, that you're filling it up
with temporary files during some cron job.

Greg