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From: root@aldous.gdirect.com (System Administrator)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc
Subject: Re: file system full
Date: 4 Aug 1995 04:04:24 -0400
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In article <3vrse7$a3j@raffles.technet.sg>,
Hai Nguyen <hai@proteq.com.sg> wrote:
>I know everyone has a lot of problems out there but can anyone tell me
>what the following message may mean, which appears on the system
>console...
>
>newton kernel: used 0 on /tmp: file system full
>new last message repeated 3 times
>mfs:16            7679             3    		 7292     	0%    		/tmp

>
It means you should get rid of MFS.

mkdir /var/tmp
umount /tmp
rmdir /tmp
ln -s /var/tmp /tmp

and then comment out the /tmp line in /etc/fstab

I can't remember, but /var/tmp may already exist but that's OK.