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Slightly tangential, but I find it a bit hard to accept that systems do not have a more graceful failure mode when their disks are full. I keep a few GB free o
by Iv 7y ago
Slightly tangential, but I find it a bit hard to accept that systems do not have a more graceful failure mode when their disks are full.
I keep a few GB free on my / but when I inadvertently fill it, it becomes almost impossible to use. Would it be so hard to keep the few last MB as reserved space for debugging purpose and refuse any space allocation that is not devoted to a 'ls' or a 'baobab' process?
- theamk 7y agoThey do https://odzangba.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/how-to-free-reserved-space-on-ext4-partitions/ https://odzangba.wordpress.com/2010/02/20/how-to-free-reserv...
- Iv 7y agoYou can reboot as root in a terminal but really, there is no good reason to fall back to this mode instead of more gracefully refuse, from userland, to use up more space.
- Avamander 7y agoYep, things like desktop environments don't even start up when / is full even if /tmp or /home isn't. Awful.