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- From: bduncan@ve3ied.UUCP (Bill Duncan)
- Subject: Re: Missing /dev/root; system still boots!
- Organization: TFMCS
- Date: Mon, 20 Jul 1992 22:25:00 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Jul20.222500.1828@ve3ied.UUCP>
- Keywords: 286 XENIX
- References: <1992Jun30.132636.1309@actcon.UUCP> <1992Jul04.013448.17633@Celestial.COM> <Br9LFG.HK1@belay>
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- In article <Br9LFG.HK1@belay> buick@belay (Patrick D. Buick) writes:
- >In article <1992Jul04.013448.17633@Celestial.COM> bill@Celestial.COM (Bill Campbell) writes:
- >>In <1992Jun30.132636.1309@actcon.UUCP> kearns@actcon.UUCP (Steve Kearns) writes:
- >>
- >>:A friend of mine is running SCO 286 XENIX on an IBM PS/2 model 50 (MCA).
- >>:She recently ran out of space in her root partition (she has two partitions,
- >>:/ and /usr; both of which are on the same physical drive). Not knowing
- >>:what to do, she turned the machine off. I was able to get the system
- >>:running again by talking her through removing some very large, bogus files in
- >>:/dev (using find /dev -type f -exec rm {} \;). The files were all in the
- >>:form of misspelled floppy device names.
- >
- >>This is a very common problem on systems. In fact, my nightly
- >>maintenance programs automatically report any files found in the
- >>/dev directory.
- >>
- >>.....
- >
- >Gee, on my system, find says /dev/null is a "type f" file..
- >(ie: Regular file)... and so it would be removed by the
- >above construct.. not a good idea.... since it gets used
- >a lot, and you really wouldn't want ordinary data put there,
- >now would you?
- >==========================================================
- >Patrick D. Buick EMT, EET | Internet: buick%belay@uunet.uu.net
- >Belay Enterprises Inc. | Internet: buickp@cuug.ab.ca
- >Calgary, Alberta, Canada | UUCP:...!uunet!keyword!calgary!pixel!belay!buick
-
- What system are *you* running? I've never seen /dev/null anything but a
- character special device.
-