From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 14 19:30:15 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 2CCB337B400 for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:30:12 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9F13743E6E for ; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 19:30:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.5/8.12.5) id g7F2UA4e034721; Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:30:10 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:30:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Benny Chee Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No space on device Message-ID: <20020815023010.GM2459@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020815020021.GA14289@magix.com.sg> <20020815021934.GL2459@dan.emsphone.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20020815021934.GL2459@dan.emsphone.com> X-OS: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.1i 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 In the last episode (Aug 14), Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Aug 15), Benny Chee said: > > 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 > > 0% is not "ample space on /tmp" :) I bet you have a symlink from > /var/tmp to /tmp. Erp. I misread the output. Try truss'ing vi and see what file it's trying to open when it gets that error. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message