From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 13 8: 1:35 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 A179237B401 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:01:33 -0800 (PST) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D184943F85 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 08:01:32 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from david.radovanovic@verizon.net) Received: from bigone ([141.149.122.203]) by out006.verizon.net (InterMail vM.5.01.05.20 201-253-122-126-120-20021101) with ESMTP id <20030213160132.RAVN1817.out006.verizon.net@bigone>; Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:01:32 -0600 Reply-To: From: "David Radovanovic" To: "Giorgos Keramidas" , Cc: Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2003 11:01:30 -0500 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) In-reply-to: <20030213140351.GD2134@gothmog.gr> Importance: Normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [141.149.122.203] at Thu, 13 Feb 2003 10:01:30 -0600 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 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 [ 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