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:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] [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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
