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Subject: Re: / file system is full, but du does not show that it's full
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On 2/28/11 1:27 PM, Chris Rees wrote:
> On 28 February 2011 12:26, Chris Rees <utisoft@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> # mount /dev/da0s1a /mnt/root/
>>>> mount: /dev/da0s1a : Operation not permitted
>>>>
>>>> So only single user mode or live cd could solve it.
>>>
>>> *NOT* true.  Stopping any daemons that were using "/var/spooll", and then
>>> umount(1)-ing it would have done the trick from multi-user mode.
>>
>> umount /   ???
>>
>> Chris
> 
> Er, caffeine overdose.
> 
> I guess you meant:
> 
> # umount /var
> 
> ....
> 
> I'll hide now.
> 
> Chris


Slice a (as in: da0s1a) is very likely his /

/var is usually slice f