Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2004 11:45:12 -0600 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: David Newman <dnewman@networktest.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: partition full, recreating a tape device Message-ID: <20041124174512.GF95873@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <20041124092759.I5865@ns.networktest.com> References: <20041124092759.I5865@ns.networktest.com>
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In the last episode (Nov 24), David Newman said: > Greetings. This is regarding a FSBD 4.10-RELEASE system. > > df -h shows the root file system is 109 percent utilized: > > Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on > /dev/aacd0s1a 126M 126M -9.9M 109% / > > The culprit is a rewindable tape drive in /dev. It shows up as an ordinary > file, not as a device (like the nonrewindable device, /dev/nsa1): > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root wheel 83046400 Nov 20 01:02 /dev/nsa1 > crw-r----- 1 root wheel 14, 16 Nov 24 05:50 /dev/rsa1 > > Question: How do I correct this so that: > > 1. /dev/nsa1 shows up as a regular device; and > 2. /dev/nsa1 doesn't fill up the filesystem Remove /dev/nsa1, and run ./MAKEDEV sa1, which will recreate all the device nodes for sa1, including nsa1. -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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