From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 20 00:06:35 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 BBDCF16A4DD for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:06:35 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.135]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 00E4043D6B for ; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:06:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 974D89BDAE; Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:36:32 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:36:32 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey To: "W. D." Message-ID: <20060820000632.GZ49761@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Organization: The FreeBSD Project Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 VoIP: sip:0871270137@sip.internode.on.net WWW-Home-Page: http://www.FreeBSD.org/ X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 00:06:35 -0000 --rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 19 August 2006 at 18:55:02 -0500, W. D. wrote: > 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=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=archive --exclude=cache . > > What did I do wrong, and how to fix it and do it right? Without knowing what your file system hierarchy is, it's a very good bet that you've written your backup archive to the root file system. This could happen even if you have a file system /archive and you haven't mounted it, and it won't go away if you do mount it; you'll have to remove the partial archive first. That's a *very* small root file system, BTW. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE56eIIubykFB6QiMRAr63AJwPfp56RIX5NK3ZiFgBqD/VmT5MdACeI7Fx sf9/Y5zQQ+dMhPc20tC8qJ8= =wfVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D--