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
next prev 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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