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From: Thom Henderson <thom@esva.net>
Newsgroups: news.software.nntp,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: Disk full errors
Date: Mon, 2 Oct 1995 10:56:41 -0400
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On Fri, 29 Sep 1995, David Pisoni wrote:

> Disk usage:
> /dev/sd0e      3220914  2431678   467144    84%    /usr/var/spool/news
> /dev/sd1a      1388078   164578  1154096    12%    /usr/local/news
> 
> Seems like lots of space....
> 
> but then later in the report:
> 
> sort: No space left on device

How much space is left on the root?  It could be running out of space in 
/tmp.