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From: Niall Smart <nsmart@iona.com>
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newfs reserves 8% of the space on a drive for root by default. Another possibility
is that you have run out of inodes, try df -i.

--
Niall Smart
Customer Engineering,
IONA Technologies. (www.iona.com)

On Tue, 5 Aug 1997, Wayne M. Barnes wrote:

> Dear FreeBSD,
> 
>      Why is my / filesystem unusably full?  I can't account
> for more than 13.3 MB, and I have room for 52 MB, yet it
> is unwritably full.
> 
>      FreeBSD 2.2.2. 
> How can I identify and/or free up the clogged space?