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- Path: sparky!uunet!sci34hub!gary
- From: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Subject: Re: System Administrator Nightmare
- Message-ID: <1992Jul23.172413.21544@sci34hub.sci.com>
- Reply-To: gary@sci34hub.sci.com (Gary Heston)
- Organization: SCI Systems, Inc., Huntsville, Al.
- References: <MJD.92Jul21174753@saul.cis.upenn.edu>
- Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1992 17:24:13 GMT
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- In article <MJD.92Jul21174753@saul.cis.upenn.edu> mjd@saul.cis.upenn.edu ("[*] Past Student of Joan Livingston") writes:
-
- > I just got mail from the amateur people who administer one of the
- >Linguistics Department machines. She's complaining that the root
- >filesystem is nearly full and wants to know if she can free up some
- >space by throwing away a big file. The big file she wants to throw away
- >is the disk image of the operating system.
-
- Sounds like a call for the BOFH.
-
- Tell her she doesn't need any of that stuff in /etc, /bin, or /dev,
- either.
-
- For fastest results, though, nothing beats mkfs.
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-
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- Gary Heston SCI Systems, Inc. gary@sci34hub.sci.com site admin
- The Chariman of the Board and the CFO speak for SCI. I'm neither.
- "Always remember, that someone, somewhere, is making a product that will
- make your product obselete." Georges Doriot, founder of American R & D.
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