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From: Peter Humphrey <peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2013 23:25:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201302232325.07638.peter@humphrey.ukfsn.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5128E3DF.2040205@gmail.com>

On Saturday 23 February 2013 15:44:31 Alan McKinnon wrote:

> The number of people who completely and totally misread the simple
> instructions about upgrading udev is spectacular.

Even I did it, and I'm ashamed to admit it too. At least I managed to 
realise my mistake and correct it without pestering anyone else.

> The guides say clearly and unambiguously to modify the mount options for
> /dev
> 
> And what did so many users at once go and do? Changed every line in
> fstab that had the three characters d-e-v in them as well.

Few of us have a /dev line in fstab, so the line that looks most like it 
becomes prime suspect.

> I dunno, sometimes I want to give up.

Don't do that until after you've straightened out your its and it's.  :-)

-- 
Peter


  parent reply	other threads:[~2013-02-23 23:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-02-23  5:00 [gentoo-user] No space left on device ? Joseph
2013-02-23  5:38 ` Nilesh Govindrajan
2013-02-23  6:05   ` Joseph
2013-02-23  6:17     ` Canek Peláez Valdés
2013-02-23  6:23       ` Joseph
2013-02-23 23:40         ` Peter Humphrey
2013-02-23  6:21     ` Joseph
2013-02-23  8:52       ` Neil Bothwick
2013-02-23 12:42         ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:16         ` Joseph
2013-02-23 14:24           ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 15:44             ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 18:21               ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 23:25               ` Peter Humphrey [this message]
2013-02-24  8:46                 ` Alan McKinnon
2013-02-23 12:41     ` Volker Armin Hemmann
2013-02-23 14:24       ` Joseph
2013-02-23 14:54         ` Florian Philipp
2013-02-23 15:46           ` Alex Schuster

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