On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:53:01PM GMT, Solene Rapenne wrote: > A common mistake when using dd is to create a file in /dev which > fills up the space of / and may stay silent until / gets filled up > by something else that will fail. > > Would it be OK to add this in /etc/daily? > > find /dev -type f ! -name MAKEDEV -delete > > AFAIK /dev should have only MAKEDEV as a regular file. > hier(7) says /dev only have block and character devices > with the exception of MAKEDEV. >
Whichever way this ends up going - or not - please don't forget about MAKEDEV.local Cheers, Raf
