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 >________________________________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > ________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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