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Date: Sun, 14 Sep 1997 11:17:01 +0930
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Ricky <rickyc@chevalier.net>
Cc: Doug White -freeBSD <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>,
        freeBSD Question <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: no free space on my device
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On Sat, Sep 13, 1997 at 10:23:27PM -0000, Ricky wrote:
> Dear Sir,
> 	I'm Ricky from Hong Kong. I've setup my 1st freeBSD unix. But I got a
> question when I transfer file from my NT's telnet display "no space left on
> device" how can I check how many disk space available on my hard
> disk?

# df

In particular, do 

# df /var

If it's on the root file system, create a file system /usr/var, and
make /var a symlink to it.

> 	I got updated /usr/src from RELENG_2_2 but I don't know how to
> build the /usr/src/release/sysinstall. This is described in Errata
> Notes of FreeBSD 2.2.2.

What's the problem?

Greg