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Robertsen A. Riehle writes:

>  Fetching 
>  ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ports/i386/packages-5-stable/Latest/gcc41.tbz...
>  /var: write failed, filesystem is full
>  info/gcc41/gccint.info: Write error: No space left on device
>   Done.
>  ^C
>  /var: write failed, filesystem is full
>  Signal 2 received, cleaning up..
>  
>  But....
>  su-2.05b# df -h /var
>  Filesystem     Size    Used   Avail Capacity  Mounted on
>  /dev/ad0s2d    248M    183M     45M    80%    /var
>  
>  Surely, a gcc package doesn't take up 45M.

	Objection - fact not in evidence.  I don't _know_ how much room
gcc takes ... but if someone told me 45 megabytes I wouldn't
disagree.
	Followup questions:
	1) what is the output of "du /var | sort -nr | head -n 40"?
	2) does "lsof" show any open files you don't recognize, or or
have no reason to be open?


				Robert Huff