News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Running Out of Disk Space in Production. Parent comment

Re:Running Out of Disk Space in Production by klaushardt on Tuesday April 07, 2026 @02:05PM (#47679067)
This is my snippet i used alot. In doubt when even rm wont work just reboot.

Disc Space Insurance File

    fallocate -l 8G /tmp/DELETE_IF_OUT_OF_SPACE.img
https://gist.github.com/klaushardt/9a5f6b0b078d28a23fd968f75...
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Running Out of Disk Space in Production by drybjed on Wednesday April 08, 2026 @05:26AM (#47687585)
Make sure your /tmp is on disk and not a tmpfs, like in recent Linux distrubitions.
[ Parent | on HN ]