Jerry Pournelle on UNIX (From BYTE)

[Barry Shein]

Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.41.4 of Mon Mar 23 1987 on bu-cs (berkeley-unix)



In article <1988Jan25.232820.27097 at utzoo.uucp>, henry at 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