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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by whatshisface on Thursday March 25, 2021 @06:24PM (#26586360)
To rationalize this phenomenon... They don't warn you about it until they think you'd be worried about it, and they don't think you'd be worried about it until they start thinking about doing it. ;)
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Re:All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk by wongarsu on Thursday March 25, 2021 @07:09PM (#26586803)
They warn you because they don't want you doing it. So if it's a tragedy of the commons (it usually is), the obvious thing to do is to do what they don't want you to.
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