On Sun, 21 Jun 2009, Scot Hetzel wrote: > On Sat, Jun 20, 2009 at 12:36 PM, Mister Olli<mister.olli_at_googlemail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > after filling up a ZFS volume until the last byte, I'm unable to > > delete files, with error 'No space left on the device'. > > I had this problem once, and was able to solve it by using: > > cat /dev/null > /path/to/file/to/remove > > This truncated the file to 0, and then I was able to remove it. BTW there is the truncate utility - it would have the same effect but truncate is simpler to run via sudo ;) -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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