Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 12:25:46 -0700 (PDT) From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <kevin_eliuk@sunshine.net> To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Jukka_Simil=E4?= <lmkjuksi@info1.info.tampere.fi> Cc: Joe <jeroyce@athena.ualr.edu>, FreeBSD Newbies List <freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: checking amount of disk space left? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980819122100.417A-100000@vanessa.eliuk.org> In-Reply-To: <35DB16A5.3CF6289A@info1.info.tampere.fi>
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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
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