Sun Ultra10/Sol 5.6 /dev folder keeps growing

From: Jon Harris (j.harris@digital-ink.co.uk)
Date: Tue May 13 2003 - 06:31:10 EDT


Hi

I have an aging Ultra-10 running Solaris 5.6.

Machine works well but I have a creeping disk problem.

Over a period of time I have been moving stuff out of the root partition
as it keeps filling.

NOTICE: alloc: /: file system full

For some strange reason the /dev folder keeps growing.

I have done an ls -al and nothing shows up as being particularly big.
Most of the stuff is linked files anyway. DU shows the largest is md at
1130k

but du -sk shows:
67347

ie 67Mb :-( given that the root partition is only 100Mb, no wonder it
keeps filling.

Can I optimise the /dev folder is some way?

I have tried boot -r, fsck in single user mode but it did not make any
difference.

Anyone have any ideas, I am really stuck in on this.

TIA

Jon Harris
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