Sun Ultra10/Sol 5.6 /dev folder keeps growing

From: Jon Harris (j.harris_at_digital-ink.co.uk)
Date: 05/13/03

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    Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:31:10 +0100
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    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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