NO SPACE Error message

[Peter J. Holsberg]

Last night in lab, I had about 12 users compiling small C programs --
maybe 30 lines each --, and I started to get "no space on disk 0
partition 0" messages.  A fast df -t revealed that I had 0 blocks left
in /, but another df -t some 10 seconds later showed that 350-450 blocks
remained.  

I don't understand where in / these blocks are being used, and why --
allof a sudden, / is crowded.  (My system has 3 file systems: /, /usr,
and /usr2.)  I'm guessing that things are happening in /tmp, right? 
Should I move the tmp directory to another files system?  Is it possible
to do that?  Or is my partition 0 just "fragmented" so that an 'fsck'
will take care of things?

Thanks for your help.

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