partition full, recreating a tape device
Dan Nelson
dnelson at allantgroup.com
Wed Nov 24 09:45:14 PST 2004
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 at allantgroup.com
More information about the freebsd-questions
mailing list