Sometimes I have made the mistake of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sd2c - instead of dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rsd2c - or worse dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc. These kind of errors have filled /dev (or ultimately /)
Play over from my Linux days. -----Original Message----- From: owner-m...@openbsd.org <owner-m...@openbsd.org> On Behalf Of Benjamin Baier Sent: Sunday, 5 April 2020 5:22 PM To: Olivier <oliv...@burelli.fr> Cc: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: [/ is full] How to delete junk in /dev ? On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 10:19:30 +0200 Olivier <oliv...@burelli.fr> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running OpenBSD from a long time(T410 / Amd64) ; and 6.6 from the > release. I did not monitor the size of / in the past... > Until today :( > > Please, how to identify junk to remove in /dev below : $ find /dev/ -type f Everything this command finds except /dev/MAKEDEV can be removed. Most likely this is a dd(1) gone wrong. -- Ben
