Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!emory!ra!it1 From: it1@ra.MsState.Edu (Tim Tsai) Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc Subject: Re: Norton Go Home! We don't want you! Message-ID: <1079@ra.MsState.Edu> Date: 19 Feb 91 00:28:54 GMT References: <1819@public.BTR.COM> <466@bria> Distribution: na Organization: Mississippi State University Lines: 17 In article <466@bria> uunet!bria!mike writes: [lines deleted] >along and asks how much disk there is. The OS lies, saying there are 'x' >free blocks, when there really is not. I start creating files, and >*whoom* run out of real disk space, and my program (while in the middle of >rebuilding an index to a large database) crashes. Woa. Can somebody confirm this? I thought NU is supposed to overwrite the so-called "freed" space when the "real" disk space starts to run out? [rest of msg deleted to keep inews happy] -- I'd never cry if I did find a blue whale in my soup... Nor would I mind a porcupine inside a chicken coop. Yes life is fine when things combine, like ham in beef chow mein... But Lord this time I think I mind, they've put acid in my rain.