Date: Wed, 7 Jun 2000 11:28:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Daniel Killingsworth <dankilling@hotmail.com> Cc: newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: /: write failed, file system is full Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0006071126480.44822-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <20000607014516.80789.qmail@hotmail.com>
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On Tue, 6 Jun 2000, Daniel Killingsworth wrote: > I keep getting this error and am unsure what could be causing it. Could > anyone shed some light on where I mught begin to look? > > /: write failed, file system is full Since people have trouble understanding what this means, what would be a better message to print out when the disk is full? What is confusing about "File system is full"? This is not a difficult concept, but it seems the lower 50% of the population doesn't understand that disks and filesystems are of finite size. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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