Unable to delete files on ZFS volume

Scot Hetzel swhetzel at gmail.com
Sun Jun 21 00:21:22 UTC 2009


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.

Scot


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