From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 6: 3:56 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 700CE37B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:03:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from mailsrv.otenet.gr (mailsrv.otenet.gr [195.170.0.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4F94543F75 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 06:03:54 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from gothmog.gr (patr530-b150.otenet.gr [212.205.244.158]) by mailsrv.otenet.gr (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h1DE3q4A019946; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:03:52 +0200 (EET) Received: from gothmog.gr (gothmog [127.0.0.1]) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7) with ESMTP id h1DE3phq002650; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:03:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from giorgos@localhost) by gothmog.gr (8.12.7/8.12.7/Submit) id h1DE3p9F002649; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:03:51 +0200 (EET) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:03:51 +0200 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: dave@whatsthebigidea.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) Message-ID: <20030213140351.GD2134@gothmog.gr> References: <20030213132206.GA1735@gothmog.gr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 2003-02-13 08:57, David Radovanovic wrote: > If I'm reading this right the most suspictious culprit in /dev: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 68960256 Feb 9 04:04 st0 > > Any ideas? It seems that you have used some sort of backup tool to save one or more backups to /dev/st0 before creating an st0 device node. Since you are root, you're allowed to create normal files under /dev. Just delete this huge st0 file and create a real device node for it: # cd /dev # sh MAKEDEV st0 then rerun your backup thingie to save the data to a real tape and not a file on disk. > As far as CPAN is concerned, should I delete the files or create a symlink > like you, to another partition with more space? I don't use CPAN, but I'd probably move /root/.cpan someplace else and symlink to it, just in case useful data is still in there. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message