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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



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