Date: Sun, 20 Aug 2006 09:36:32 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "W. D." <WD@US-Webmasters.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ouch! "write failed, file system is full" Message-ID: <20060820000632.GZ49761@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178> References: <5.1.0.14.2.20060819185125.106dc220@209.152.117.178>
next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
--rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Saturday, 19 August 2006 at 18:55:02 -0500, W. D. 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% / > > I tried to do a backup: > > cd / > mkdir archive > tar -zcvpf /archive/full-backup-`date '+%Y-%B-%d'`.tar.gz --directory / --exclude=mnt --exclude=proc --exclude=archive --exclude=cache . > > What did I do wrong, and how to fix it and do it right? Without knowing what your file system hierarchy is, it's a very good bet that you've written your backup archive to the root file system. This could happen even if you have a file system /archive and you haven't mounted it, and it won't go away if you do mount it; you'll have to remove the partial archive first. That's a *very* small root file system, BTW. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. --rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFE56eIIubykFB6QiMRAr63AJwPfp56RIX5NK3ZiFgBqD/VmT5MdACeI7Fx sf9/Y5zQQ+dMhPc20tC8qJ8= =wfVj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --rmZDAlAp7pllCg/D--
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?20060820000632.GZ49761>