From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 19: 0:28 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A39B337B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from smtp14.singnet.com.sg (smtp14.singnet.com.sg [165.21.6.34]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 57EB243E75 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:00:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bennyc@magix.com.sg) Received: from zehn.mine.nu (ad202.166.1.178.magix.com.sg [202.166.1.178]) by smtp14.singnet.com.sg (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7F20M9U004009 for ; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:00:22 +0800 Received: (from bennyc@localhost) by zehn.mine.nu (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g7F20MFH014342 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:00:22 +0800 (SGT) Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 10:00:21 +0800 From: Benny Chee To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: No space on device Message-ID: <20020815020021.GA14289@magix.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i Organization: Singapore Telecommunications Ltd Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hi, i m facing this issue currently when i tried to vi a file: Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: No space left on device; Modifications not recoverable if the session fails; However, when i did a df -h, i got ample space on /var or /tmp. # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/ad0s1a 126M 43M 73M 37% / /dev/ad0s2e 10G 3.2G 6.1G 34% /home /dev/ad0s1f 252M 94K 232M 0% /tmp /dev/ad0s1g 2.6G 1.9G 471M 81% /usr /dev/ad0s1e 252M 105M 127M 45% /var procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc Anyway to get around it? benny To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message