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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