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List:       gentoo-user
Subject:    Re: [gentoo-user] Freeing up disk space problem!!
From:       Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon () gmail ! com>
Date:       2012-02-29 12:11:41
Message-ID: 20120229141141.7c047149 () khamul ! example ! com
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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


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