/: write failed, filesystem is full

Jaap Boender jaapb at kerguelen.org
Wed Oct 5 03:30:49 PDT 2005


On Wed, 5 Oct 2005, Jaap Boender wrote:

> Anyway, it seems as if your 3.3G file hasn't disappeared, since there is 
> still
> 4.0G in the root directory...What kind of file was it?

Oh, wait, I read you wrongly. The file from /root has disappeared all right
(only 18M in there). The 4.0G you read includes the total of everything below
it, such as the /usr and /www and so on. If you only want the / file system,
try the -x option, as I said.

Sorry,

   Jaap


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