From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 19 23:55:40 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 2992216A4DE for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:55:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: from usw2.natel.net (2b.bz [209.152.117.190]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 6448C43D53 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:55:38 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from WD@US-Webmasters.com) Received: (qmail 1696 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2006 23:55:37 -0000 Received: from batv-01-192.dsl.netins.net (HELO Htebazile.US-Webmasters.com) (207.199.193.192) by us-webmasters.com with SMTP; 19 Aug 2006 23:55:37 -0000 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178> X-Sender: wd@209.152.117.178 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 18:55:02 -0500 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: "W. D." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Subject: Ouch! "write failed, file system is full" X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 19 Aug 2006 23:55:40 -0000 How do I get out of this mess? gzip: stdout: No space left on device Broken pipe df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /dev/da0s1a 99183 98644 -7395 108% / I tried to do a backup: cd / mkdir archive tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%Y-%B-%d'`.tar.gz --directory /= --exclude=3Dmnt --exclude=3Dproc --exclude=3Darchive --exclude=3Dcache . What did I do wrong, and how to fix it and do it right? Start Here to Find It Fast!=99 ->= http://www.US-Webmasters.com/best-start-page/ $8.77 Domain Names -> http://domains.us-webmasters.com/