Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:01:30 -0500 From: "David Radovanovic" <david.radovanovic@verizon.net> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>, <dave@whatsthebigidea.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) Message-ID: <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOAEJNDPAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net> In-Reply-To: <20030213140351.GD2134@gothmog.gr>
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That was the ticket. / is back down to 48%. Though when I 'sh MAKEDEV st0' in /dev I get the error: st0 - no such device name. Thanks. David Radovanovic WhatsTheBigIdea.com, Inc. -- Bright ideas for the Web! 249 Partition Street Saugerties, New York 12477 (845) 247-0909, FAX: (845) 246-3880 http://www.WhatsTheBigIdea.com [-----Original Message----- [From: Giorgos Keramidas [mailto:keramida@ceid.upatras.gr] [Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 9:04 AM [To: dave@whatsthebigidea.com [Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [Subject: Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) [ [ [On 2003-02-13 08:57, David Radovanovic [<david.radovanovic@verizon.net> 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
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