On Thu, 13 Jun 2024 02:29:02 +0100, "Brian Conway" <bcon...@rcesoftware.com> wrote: > > A note on how you got into the original situation without addressing all > the things you've done since: /dev should only be a few dozen KB in size > (less than 50). Some time in the past, you likely wrote a significant > amount of data to a new file in /dev rather than the device you intended.
just an example of such application is logfmon which has cachefile which it removes and creates, after it was read. So, if you run it under root with /dev/null as cache file, you'll lose your /dev/null, and soon it will be quite big. -- wbr, Kirill
