Mail loses messages

[P. Glassenbury]

In article <618 at ccssrv.UUCP>, perry at ccssrv.UUCP (Perry Hutchison) writes:
> Situation:  login, shell reports "you have mail."  Read mail (using
> /usr/ucb/mail), enter "q".  The disk containing the mbox is full.  See
> messages from kernel (write failed, file system is full).
> This happened on SunOS 3.5 (derived from 4.2BSD).
		      ^^^^
Similar thing happened under SunOS4.0.1 -- saved mail to the mbox, file
system full,  and the mbox was TRUNCATED TO ZERO - Thank goodness for backups 
(I might have been reading from the mbox)

Peter Glassenbury			Computer Science Dept.
pete at cosc.canterbury.ac.nz		University of Canterbury, NZ