From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 2 6: 8:46 2002 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 BDC9A37B401 for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:08:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22D6643E0A for ; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 06:08:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.6+Sun/8.11.6) id g62D8cu17380; Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:08:38 -0400 (EDT) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200207021308.g62D8cu17380@clunix.cl.msu.edu> Subject: Re: / slice full To: tristan11@mindspring.com (Michelle Weeks) Date: Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:08:37 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, cyberlord@cyberlord.net.dhis.org (Tim) In-Reply-To: <3F6FCED3-8D51-11D6-BF42-00039368B8EC@mindspring.com> from "Michelle Weeks" at Jul 01, 2002 05:18:35 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Monday, July 1, 2002, at 05:06 PM, Tim wrote: > > > On Monday 01 July 2002 07:03 pm, Michelle Weeks wrote: > >> thanks! that's what i was missing. the output from du -hcsx * is: > >> 6.0K COPYRIGHT > >> 3.8M bin > >> 392K boot > >> 2.0K cdrom > >> 0B compat > >> 94M dev > > > > 94M in /dev? > > > > Mine is 64K on a stock X-User install. > > > > Check that directory. > > yes, thank you! my eyes must be getting tired because i completely > missed that. it's the tape drive: nrsa0 that's taking up 92M. how do i > clear that out? Well, probably you wrote to that file without the device being created. Or, check the exact spelling. Maybe it isn't REALLY nrsa0 - maybe nrsaO instead or some such. (Here, note number zero and letter upper-case Oh) Some old systems I have had would even create and write a file if a tape wasn't on the drive for the corresponding device, but I don't think FreeBSD has that problem as long as the device is properly created in /dev. Getting rid of the file depends on whether there is something in it you need or if it is just junk. If you don't want it, you can just 'rm' it. You can also copy it to somewhere else where you have room to play. # cd /dev # cp nrsa0 /otherdir/nrsa0.save If the file really had the tape device name then, after you get it out of /dev, make the tape devices to make sure it doesn't happen again. Remake the devices. # cd /dev # rm *sa0* # ./MAKEDEV sa0 You can try and look at the file to see if there is something you need. If you can think of how it might have gotten there it would help. If it is a dump file try using restore to look at it. If it is a tar file, try using tar to look at it. Have fun, ////jerry > > > > > Tim > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message