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From: bzs@bu-cs.BU.EDU (Barry Shein)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards,comp.arch
Subject: Re: Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)
Message-ID: <19742@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Date: 7 Feb 88 00:21:38 GMT
References: <1999@ncr-sd.SanDiego.NCR.COM>, <5696@eecae.UUCP> <1988Jan25.232820.27097@utzoo.uucp> <365@splut.UUCP>
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In article <1988Jan25.232820.27097@utzoo.uucp>, henry@utzoo.uucp (Henry Spencer) writes:
> > ... I'd like to see a UNIX system in which the root partition is 500MB.
> Probably SunOS 4.0.  Or 4.4BSD.

For what it's worth we have a Sun3.4 server here which had an
overflowing root partition. Systems started cleaning it up to no
avail. The reason it still appeared full was something arcane (I
forget, but it was a result of a full restore, some error.) When we
cleared that up we find that the system is currently running just fine
and df reveals:

Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
/dev/xy0a               7735    2855    4106    41%    /

Strange...but true...

	-Barry Shein, Boston University