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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




  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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