/: write failed, filesystem is full

[Bob Johnson]

On 10/5/05, P.U.Kruppa <root at pukruppa.de> wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, jojo wrote:
>
> > Hello, I have a problem with the filesystem. I am always
> > getting those "/: write failed, filesystem is full" errors. If
> > I have a look on df the root has 109% Capacity. How could that
> > be? I had a file in /root with 3.3G that I have now deleted but
> > with no success. The df output is as before. I am using
> > Raid1(Mirror) with two 80Gig ST380011A/3.04 HDs.

> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq
>       /disks.html#DISK-MORE-THAN-FULL
>

As well as
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF

i.e. read sections 9.23 and 9.26 of the FAQ.

Or just reboot.  Crude, and not very informative, but it will fix it.

- Bob