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Date:      Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:03:40 EDT
From:      "Daniel Killingsworth" <dankilling@hotmail.com>
To:        newbies@freebsd.org
Subject:   Fwd: RE: /: write failed, file system is full
Message-ID:  <20000607020340.66416.qmail@hotmail.com>

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Ok, so what is going on here is my / directory is full? Is there some way to 
change that, or do I need to re-install and re-allocate the slices?

/Dan

...and yes, I am completely new to this...I am a Windoze convert


>From: byu@skygo.com
>To: dankilling@hotmail.com
>Subject: RE: /: write failed, file system is full
>Date: Tue, 6 Jun 2000 17:57:57 -0700
>
>This is actually simple, the / is your root slice. Which is has wholely
>separate from the rest of your file system. That is,
>when you installed FBSD, you needed to allocate X number of megs
>for /, N number for /usr, etc...
>example (pulling numbers from the air):
>25megs /
>50megs swp  (swap space)
>5000megs /usr
>
>basically, when you have anything under /usr, it'll go into that
>5000meg slice, and anything under / will go to the 25meg slice...
>so /usr/home/ will have lots of space. Whereas, /home will not...
>except that /home is generally a symbolic link to /usr/home...
>but /var will be in the 25 megs slice... This is a little spammy, but i
>hope you get the idea...
>
>Generally, the / won't need that much space... any directory that will,
>will usually be a symlink to an equivalent directory under /usr. like
>the /usr/home example.
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: dankilling [mailto:dankilling@hotmail.com]
>Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 6:45 PM
>To: newbies
>Cc: dankilling
>Subject: FW: /: write failed, file system is full
>
>
>I keep getting this error and am unsure what could be causing it. Could
>anyone shed some light on  where I mught begin to look?
>
>/: write failed, file system is full
>
>Thanks,
>
>/Dan
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