Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 22:44:26 -0700 From: Ryan <rd64pro@pacbell.net> To: Daniel Killingsworth <dankilling@hotmail.com> Cc: newbies@freebsd.org Subject: Re: /: write failed, file system is full Message-ID: <000b01bfd043$714fbaa0$e986d4cf@pacbell.net> References: <20000607014516.80789.qmail@hotmail.com> <393DB6E5.67D0CB18@cstone.net>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] Hi Dan, I had this same problem about a week after I initially installed FreeBSD. It turned out that my root directory (i.e. / ) was full. During the installation, when you arrange partitions/slices/etc, I accepted FreeBSD's defaults. / ended up being fairly small (yet efficient if kept clean). Well, one of the first things I did after installing was recompile the kernel to add sound support for my SBLive! and clean out some of the unused stuff. After you compile a kernel, the old one is left behind on / just in case you can't boot to the new one. Well, between this extra kernel and a few other things on /, it managed to exceed 100% capacity. Anyway, use 'df' to take a look at the state of your slices. Without arguments, this will list the default info for /; /usr; /var; /proc; and I think your swap (Not in FBSD right now, so I can't confirm all of them). It tells you the total capacity, bytes used, percentage used, etc. If you've compiled a new kernel and everything is working as expected, you may want to trash the old one, or at least move it into /usr/local or something. A hint that this may be the case is the first part of the error message (i.e. "/: write failed...") Hope this helps! Ryan 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 > > Thanks, > > /Dan > ________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message [-- Attachment #2 --] <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 5.50.3825.1300" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Hi Dan,</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>I had this same problem about a week after I initially installed FreeBSD. It turned out that my root directory (i.e. / ) was full. During the installation, when you arrange partitions/slices/etc, I accepted FreeBSD's defaults. / ended up being fairly small (yet efficient if kept clean). Well, one of the first things I did after installing was recompile the kernel to add sound support for my SBLive! and clean out some of the unused stuff. After you compile a kernel, the old one is left behind on / just in case you can't boot to the new one. Well, between this extra kernel and a few other things on /, it managed to exceed 100% capacity.</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Anyway, use 'df' to take a look at the state of your slices. Without arguments, this will list the default info for /; /usr; /var; /proc; and I think your swap (Not in FBSD right now, so I can't confirm all of them). It tells you the total capacity, bytes used, percentage used, etc. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>If you've compiled a new kernel and everything is working as expected, you may want to trash the old one, or at least move it into /usr/local or something. </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>A hint that this may be the case is the first part of the error message (i.e. "/: write failed...") </FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Hope this helps!</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Ryan</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT color=#0000ff size=2></FONT><BR><BR><BR>Daniel Killingsworth wrote:<BR><BR>> I keep getting this error and am unsure what could be causing it. Could<BR>> anyone shed some light on where I mught begin to look?<BR>><BR>> /: write failed, file system is full<BR>><BR>> Thanks,<BR>><BR>> /Dan<BR>> ________________________________________________________________________<BR>> Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at <A href="http://www.hotmail.com">http://www.hotmail.com</A><BR>><BR>> To Unsubscribe: send mail to <A href="mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.org">majordomo@FreeBSD.org</A><BR>> with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message<BR><BR><BR><BR>To Unsubscribe: send mail to <A href="mailto:majordomo@FreeBSD.org">majordomo@FreeBSD.org</A><BR>with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>help
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