Ouch! "write failed, file system is full"

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-08-19 18:55, "W. D." <WD at US-Webmasters.com> wrote:
> How do I get out of this mess?
> 
> gzip: stdout: No space left on device
> Broken pipe
> 
> df
> Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Mounted on
> /dev/da0s1a     99183    98644    -7395   108%    /

First of all, start by trying to find out where all that space has gone,
by judicious use of du(1), i.e.:

    # cd /
    # du -xsk *

Then, when you have a good idea why your root filesystem is out of
space, backup and remove or move away any files that don't need to be
there :-)