From: Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:11:41 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120229141141.7c047149@khamul.example.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120229110849.5bec507c@digimed.co.uk>
On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:08:49 +0000
Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:40:33 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
>
> > When $LUSER fills up his drive it can be that root is the only user
> > that can properly mount and access the filesystem. So whatever the
> > $LUSER was doing that filled up the drive needs to be undone by
> > root, probably by shuffling stuff around.
>
> I've never failed to fix that by deleting a file as the user that
> created it, usually the partial file that caused the problem, but I
> can see why you may want to keep a small amount reserved for that.
>
> However, I still don't get the "-m 0 increases fragmentation" thing.
>
>
Yeah, that sounds like an old wives tale urban myth to me too
I'll be wanting to be seeing the output of real diagnostic programs
--
Alan McKinnnon
alan.mckinnon@gmail.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-29 12:13 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 39+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-28 11:37 [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! trevor donahue
2012-02-28 11:52 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-28 13:37 ` William Kenworthy
2012-02-28 11:57 ` Mick
2012-02-28 11:59 ` [gentoo-user] " Nikos Chantziaras
2012-02-28 12:24 ` [gentoo-user] " YoYo Siska
2012-02-28 12:50 ` trevor donahue
2012-02-28 13:25 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 13:01 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-28 13:27 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-28 23:25 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 0:32 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 1:05 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 6:22 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 9:29 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 9:57 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 10:40 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 11:08 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 12:11 ` Alan McKinnon [this message]
2012-03-01 0:59 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01 9:54 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 23:59 ` [gentoo-user] " walt
2012-03-01 0:43 ` Pandu Poluan
2012-02-29 0:48 ` [gentoo-user] " Dale
2012-02-29 1:01 ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-29 2:38 ` Dale
2012-02-29 6:17 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 7:10 ` Dale
2012-02-29 7:49 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 9:23 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-03-01 1:09 ` Frank Steinmetzger
2012-03-01 8:26 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 9:53 ` Neil Bothwick
2012-02-29 9:19 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-29 14:44 ` Dale
2012-02-29 7:43 ` J. Roeleveld
2012-02-29 13:06 ` Daddy
2012-02-29 14:44 ` Dale
2012-02-28 16:14 ` James Broadhead
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