[plug] Ext2/3 Out of Disk space bug + Journals

Craig Ringer craig at postnewspapers.com.au
Sun Aug 24 15:17:36 WST 2003


> Can I swear yet? When I run out of disk space it would be nice if I was 
> notified instead of having my data goto /dev/null.

Yeah. *foam*. Stupid apps that don't correctly handle write failures due 
to running out of disk space. Mozilla, for example, eats it's profile 
and preferences.

> Any clues on how to prevent this?

If you find out, tell me. The only one I'm aware of so far is "fix 
braindead applications that don't do proper error checking - that is, 
almost all applications."



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