Date: Wed, 14 Aug 2002 21:30:10 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Benny Chee <bennyc@magix.com.sg> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No space on device Message-ID: <20020815023010.GM2459@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20020815021934.GL2459@dan.emsphone.com> References: <20020815020021.GA14289@magix.com.sg> <20020815021934.GL2459@dan.emsphone.com>
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In the last episode (Aug 14), Dan Nelson said: > In the last episode (Aug 15), Benny Chee said: > > i m facing this issue currently when i tried to vi a file: > > > > Error: /var/tmp/vi.recover: No space left on device; Modifications not recoverable if the session fails; > > > > However, when i did a df -h, i got ample space on /var or /tmp. > > > > # df -h > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > > /dev/ad0s1a 126M 43M 73M 37% / > > /dev/ad0s2e 10G 3.2G 6.1G 34% /home > > /dev/ad0s1f 252M 94K 232M 0% /tmp > > /dev/ad0s1g 2.6G 1.9G 471M 81% /usr > > /dev/ad0s1e 252M 105M 127M 45% /var > > procfs 4.0K 4.0K 0B 100% /proc > > 0% is not "ample space on /tmp" :) I bet you have a symlink from > /var/tmp to /tmp. Erp. I misread the output. Try truss'ing vi and see what file it's trying to open when it gets that error. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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