From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 14 4: 2:19 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 CF5D037B401 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:02:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from out006.verizon.net (out006pub.verizon.net [206.46.170.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 766B843FB1 for ; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 04:02:16 -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 <20030214120215.WVPZ1817.out006.verizon.net@bigone>; Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:02:15 -0600 Reply-To: From: "David Radovanovic" To: "Jan Grant" , "dave" Cc: "Giorgos Keramidas" , "freebsd-questions" Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 07:02:13 -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: X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Importance: Normal X-Authentication-Info: Submitted using SMTP AUTH at out006.verizon.net from [141.149.122.203] at Fri, 14 Feb 2003 06:02:13 -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 Thanks to Jan and Giorgos. Your suggestions were very helpful. 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: Jan Grant [mailto:Jan.Grant@bristol.ac.uk] [Sent: Thursday, February 13, 2003 6:24 PM [To: dave [Cc: Giorgos Keramidas; freebsd-questions [Subject: RE: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up) [ [ [On Thu, 13 Feb 2003, David Radovanovic wrote: [ [> 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. [ [Old backup system? "man st" claims that (a) this was a SCSI tape; and [(b) this has been deprecated in favour of the sa(4) driver. [ [1. Ensure your /dev/sa0 &co. device files exist. [2. Update your backup program, or specify the correct device file for it [to use [3. At a pinch, if your backup program doesn't grok sa, you might create [symlinks from /dev/st to /dev/sa but there's no guarantee that any [special ioctls will work across both devices. [ [-- [jan grant, ILRT, University of Bristol. http://www.ilrt.bris.ac.uk/ [Tel +44(0)117 9287088 Fax +44 (0)117 9287112 http://ioctl.org/jan/ ["No generalised law is without exception." A self-demonstrating axiom. [ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message