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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2000 19:16:01 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Derrick Baumer <bduk@earthlink.net>
To:        982BE635243@stud.alakhawayn.ma
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: help
Message-ID:  <200004030216.TAA01833@earthlink.net>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.96.1000402015330.29658A-100000@stud.alakhawayn.ma> (message from Mohamed Sridi on Sun, 2 Apr 2000 01:59:29 %2B0000 (GMT))

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> From: Mohamed Sridi <982BE635243@stud.alakhawayn.ma>
> 
> hi everybody,
> 
> the problem that i have is when recompile the kernel specially when i do
> make i have this error 
>  /var : write failed, system file is full
> i don't which files i should remove in directory  /var
> thanks for your help.
>  regards

Look in /var/log.  Anything ending with a .gz is an archive you
*could* delete.  A wise sysadmin will look through them before sending
them to the bit-bucket.  "ls -l /var/log/" will show you how much
space each file is consuming.  If you have a file that isn't being
rotated, you might find something quite huge in there.

Other places you might look, assuming a properly functioning system,
include /var/backups (if you're dropping backups there) and, of
course, /var/tmp.

You might try "ls -lR /var/" and just look for big file sizes as well.

-- 
Derrick Baumer - Black Duck Software
        <bduk@earthlink.net>


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