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On Wed, 19 Nov 1997, Tom wrote:

>   I can't accept that idea of a "graceful" failure.  I don't know if there
> are any "catastrophic" (ie. eaten e-mail, destroyed password
> files, etc) failures in FreeBSD, due to full filesystems.  But the
> so-called graceful failures are the real essence of this thread.  How do
> you avoid them in the first place?

Well, at first you don't.  Then you learn how to estimate your disk space
needs effectively.
 


 Ben

"You have your mind on computers, it seems."