Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk
by CJefferson on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:01PM
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The reason was, I thought, discussed in the article.
When you actually fill up your disc, many linux commands will simply fail to run, meaning getting out of that state is extremely difficult. Deleting the file means you have room to move files around / run emacs / whatever, to fix the problem.
When you actually fill up your disc, many linux commands will simply fail to run, meaning getting out of that state is extremely difficult. Deleting the file means you have room to move files around / run emacs / whatever, to fix the problem.