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- From: mills@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Gary Mills)
- Subject: Re: DISK LIMIT REACHED
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- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
- References: <1992Nov20.234709.21592@megatek.com>
- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 23:20:38 GMT
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- In <1992Nov20.234709.21592@megatek.com> randy@megatek.com (Randy Davis) writes:
-
- > Has anyone seen this message on a fileserver's console?:
-
- >DISK LIMIT REACHED (/filesystem) - WRITE FAILED
-
- > If you have, have you succeeded in eradicating it?
-
- This will do it. I run it from rc.local.
-
- #!/bin/sh
- #kpatch: apply local patches to the running kernel
- # disable console printfs
-
- N=/vmunix
- D=/dev/mem
-
- adb -w -k $N $D <<\EOF
- noprintf/W 1
- $q
- EOF
-
- #!/end
-
- The kernel quota routines attempt to write these messages to the user's
- tty, but when the user is on an NFS client, this fail, so they write
- them directly to the console instead. Silly idea!
- --
- -Gary Mills- -Networking Group- -U of M Computer Services-
-