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Date:      Thu, 13 Feb 2003 16:03:51 +0200
From:      Giorgos Keramidas <keramida@ceid.upatras.gr>
To:        dave@whatsthebigidea.com
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Root filesystem 102% full (was: Disks fillin up)
Message-ID:  <20030213140351.GD2134@gothmog.gr>
In-Reply-To: <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOEEJMDPAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net>
References:  <20030213132206.GA1735@gothmog.gr> <NEBBKHDKKLPFAIALALCOEEJMDPAA.david.radovanovic@verizon.net>

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On 2003-02-13 08:57, David Radovanovic <david.radovanovic@verizon.net> 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.


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