From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S2iPP-0006qT-8R for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:13:27 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AD276E0549; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-wi0-f181.google.com (mail-wi0-f181.google.com [209.85.212.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 95403E0592 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 12:12:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wibhi8 with SMTP id hi8so4781192wib.40 for ; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:06 -0800 (PST) Received-SPF: pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.135.193 as permitted sender) client-ip=10.216.135.193; Authentication-Results: mr.google.com; spf=pass (google.com: domain of alan.mckinnon@gmail.com designates 10.216.135.193 as permitted sender) smtp.mail=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com; dkim=pass header.i=alan.mckinnon@gmail.com Received: from mr.google.com ([10.216.135.193]) by 10.216.135.193 with SMTP id u43mr1436wei.34.1330517526895 (num_hops = 1); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:06 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=uySX3hRwcVPqsrR9bAK1EdLsLuxhxQut5G30xLVSTbI=; b=IKT+1QrHP/CvAA/odlBYTMSUUJYc19HWf/F9C5R29I0C/+NMyprhQQOvm7xVT2W+Nv 9fcAJML2DgQnTwL8wLX1AIGUwS1f3MrpqsAkihudc+12QskTQa/PAsXMFErzfunOTdnl Uqi8wD7cueHIpHBRANzUoX82wgBnZ3ZlAqHYY= Received: by 10.216.135.193 with SMTP id u43mr764wei.34.1330517524677; Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from khamul.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id gm1sm36243086wib.7.2012.02.29.04.11.59 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Wed, 29 Feb 2012 04:12:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:11:41 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!! Message-ID: <20120229141141.7c047149@khamul.example.com> In-Reply-To: <20120229110849.5bec507c@digimed.co.uk> References: <20120228140150.2b35b864@weird.wonkology.org> <20120228132712.6df1ca07@digimed.co.uk> <20120229002500.6d2ab8a9@weird.wonkology.org> <20120229112945.73867e57@khamul.example.com> <20120229095719.59fe466d@digimed.co.uk> <20120229124033.071ed7d6@khamul.example.com> <20120229110849.5bec507c@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.8.0 (GTK+ 2.24.10; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: c0350131-9914-4180-8ba5-b521578edb89 X-Archives-Hash: d3c67ba50d430492d7d7c1768f5581e4 On Wed, 29 Feb 2012 11:08:49 +0000 Neil Bothwick 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