From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 31 21:20:46 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA10526 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:20:46 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.sns.com (jack.sns.com [199.35.183.1]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id VAA10521 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:20:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from speedy-nt by mail.sns.com with smtp (Smail3.1.28.1 #5) id m0wBvzo-000Q2nC; Mon, 31 Mar 97 21:20 PST Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970331212012.0095a860@mail.sns.com> X-Sender: ludwigp@mail.sns.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 1997 21:20:30 -0800 To: prosser@ewa.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Ludwig Pummer Subject: Re: Filesystem errors w/ FreeBSD 2.2 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 08:30 PM 3/31/97 -0800, prosser@ewa.net wrote: >Thank you in advance for any help you may have to offer. I recently installed >FreeBSD 2.2 on a Cyrix 6x86 166+ w/ 24MB RAM and a 2GB IDE drive, and >I have been receiving an error that prevents me from adding anything >or even changing anything on the computer. It reads something like: > >Mar 31 20:29:08 news-beta /kernel: pid 21577 (patch), uid 0 on /: file system >full > >What could this mean? How can I solve this? > >Frustratedly yours, > >Peter Rosser >prosser@ewa.net Your "/" slice is full. You can check free space with "df". You should clear stuff out of the / slice and free up some space. When you have to hold something in a temporary spot, store it in the user's home directory or even just /home, but not the / directory. --Ludwig Pummer ----------------------------------------------------------------- ludwigp@sns.com http://chipweb.home.ml.org http://www.sns.com/~ludwigp <--^-- Updated 11/22/96 PGP Key & Geek Code available on web page