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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Filesystem errors w/ FreeBSD 2.2
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On Mon, 31 Mar 1997 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?

It means that your root file system is full :)  Look in / and /tmp and
make sure something didn't go wild in there.  Remove any non-essential
files (like ones that end in .core) and reboot your machine.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major