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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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