Unable to delete files on ZFS volume

[Daniel O'Connor]

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 ;)

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