Re: [gentoo-user] No space left on device ?

[Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com>]

On 24/02/2013 01:25, Peter Humphrey wrote:
> 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.

Eh?

It's a guide about udev, which manages /dev, so it gives the mount type
and options for /dev

It says nothing at all about /dev/shm or any other mount point.
I'm just baffled as to how so many people could mis-read it. One or two
I could understand (tired, lack of coffee, etc), but so many? Baffling.

> 
>> I dunno, sometimes I want to give up.
> 
> Don't do that until after you've straightened out your its and it's.  :-)

Errrm, yeah. English has this arbitrary rule about that as there's no
sensible precedence order. Which has higher precedence - possession or
contraction?

Long ago someone tossed a coin and decreed which one. And I can never
remember which way the coin fell, I've pretty much decided I no longer
give a hoot :-)

And you'll notice I often type ";" where a "'" belongs - that's because
my right pinky finger no longer works properly, I have to use the ring
finger instead. Makes for lots of interesting typos :-)

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