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Subject: Re: OH NO! Says root partition / is full but it's not! I don't get
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On Mon, Nov 7, 2011 at 11:39 AM, rtsit <rtsit@yahoo.com> wrote:

>
>
> Why does it say my main root partition is full when it's not? It's only
> using 146 Meg out of a possible 507 Meg
>

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/faq/disks.html#DU-VS-DF

Boot in single user mode.
> for each mount point ( /tmp /usr /var )
> chflags -R noschg /<mount point>
> rm -rf /<mount point>/*
>

This is terrible advice.  There are proper methods for finding what's using
the space and to recover it.  You should use them.

-- 
Adam Vande More