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From: rhh@alice.att.com (r hardin)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.3b1
Subject: Re: Getting rid of "disk almost full" message
Message-ID: <20117@alice.att.com>
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 91 11:03:26 EST
References: <17255@venera.isi.edu> <20105@alice.att.com> <1991Mar24.215823.17037@kpc.com>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill NJ
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In article <1991Mar24.215823.17037@kpc.com>, bri@kpc.com (Brian Rice) writes:
| In article <20105@alice.att.com> rhh@alice.att.com (r hardin) writes:
| >> How does one prevent the 7300 from displaying those annoying "disk
| >> almost full" messages every few minutes when free disk space drops
| >> below 5%?
| >> 
| >Assuming you're running 3.5 as I am, you can
| >
| >*	$ su
| >* ()
| >*	# adb -w /etc/smgr
| >*	upd_time+1be?i
| >	upd_time+1be:		bge.w	upd_time+236
| >*	.?w 6000
| >	upd_time+1be:	6c00	=	6000
| >*	.?i
| >	upd_time+1be:		bra.w	upd_time+236
| >*	<EOT>
| >	# 
| >(*) = you type
| >
| >which causes smgr to think there's lots of space regardless of your usage.
| 
| Whoa, thanks for the excellent contribution... but could you (or someone)
| bring that stuff down to a little less technical explanation?  Before I edit
| my smgr I'd kinda like to know what I'm telling it... and in reference
| to the statement "...lot's of space regardless..."  How much are we talking
| about.  I'd hate like hell to literally run out and think there's a Meg or two
| left.  Naturally it would be at the exact moment of the use of the last
| block that my system would crash and the only file /etc/.cleanup would
| find to delete would be /tmp/.winload!!!

the patch jumps around the message ``your disk is almost full go to the
wastebasket and throw the system in'' or whatever that comes up randomly
to eat characters from whatever you're typing. i assume it's only in 3.5
or i would have heard more about it.

the patch takes effect the next time you reboot, i should have mentioned.

i've been running with it for two years, with seldom more than 1.5 meg free.
when you run out, you run out. that's what df is for.