From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 12:27:26 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA13774 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:27:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from vanessa.eliuk.org (pme36.sunshine.net [209.17.178.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA13756 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:27:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net) Received: from localhost (cagey@localhost) by vanessa.eliuk.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA00432; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:26:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cagey@vanessa.eliuk.org) Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" Reply-To: "Kevin G. Eliuk" To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= cc: Joe , FreeBSD Newbies List Subject: Re: checking amount of disk space left? In-Reply-To: <35DB16A5.3CF6289A@info1.info.tampere.fi> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from QUOTED-PRINTABLE to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id MAA13765 Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, 19 Aug 1998, Jukka Similä wrote: => Joe wrote: => > => > And if you run out of disk space, a "rm -r *" will give you all the space you => > need...and if you really feel stupid, log in as root and cd to / first.... => => And if you think you have nothing to do (or ^ that advice above isn't => enough) you can cd to / and chmod -r 777 => => - I did it once, it was a great fun afterwards. => => - These advices are actually very useful if you are unemployed. => => - Don't say nobody warned you, everybody knows that. Did the same same thing accidently with chown, not sure how actually, must have put a space between the `/' and `A' (floppy). Thank god for `mtree'. Saved a few hours of labour. => => - Have you noticed, you can get some really good advices between about => 71115965327 useless like "don't login as root if you don't need to" .. => these "hit the road, jack"- advices are really something! => Don't login as root before your second cup of coffee :) Regards, Kevin G. Eliuk Discover Rock Solid, Discover FreeBSD | http://www.FreeBSD.Org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message