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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by dexen on Thursday September 26, 2019 @03:03PM (#21084297)
Website seems to be hugged to death, here's an archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20190429214402/https://ownyourbi...

The article is well worth reading as it's reasonably comprehensive, including a small foray into COW filesystem.

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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by l1n on Friday September 27, 2019 @03:27PM (#21095458)
Reminder that all HN submissions are archived at archive.is, just prepend archive.is/ to the url
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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by minitoar on Thursday September 26, 2019 @04:43PM (#21085325)
Is that a reference to Hug Bot? https://pbfcomics.com/comics/hug-bot/
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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by lbotos on Thursday September 26, 2019 @05:12PM (#21085602)
Not sure, but I always thought "hug of death" came from reddit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slashdot_effect

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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by hwj on Monday October 07, 2019 @07:46AM (#21179679)
Previously, that was called "slashdotting".

(Knowing such things makes me feel kind of old).

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Re:Understanding Disk Usage in Linux by minitoar on Friday September 27, 2019 @12:04AM (#21088307)
Ah yes that is surely it.
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