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Date: Tue, 5 Aug 1997 12:00:51 -0500
From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@emsphone.com>
To: "Wayne M. Barnes" <wayne@barnes1.wustl.edu>
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Subject: Re: slash filesystem full
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In the last episode (Aug 05), Wayne M. Barnes said:
> 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.
> 
> #df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/wd0a       51791    51791    -4143   109%    /
> /dev/wd0s3e   2129022   260555  1698146    13%    /usr
> /dev/wd0s3f     29727      486    26863     2%    /var
> procfs              4        4        0   100%    /proc
> 
> #du -sx
> 13227	.

Try unmounting /usr and /var (and /proc if you can), and see if there
are any files underneath the mount points.

	-Dan Nelson
	dnelson@emsphone.com