From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: From: Fco.J.Ballesteros To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil: disk is full In-Reply-To: <20030307101711.F13434@cackle.proxima.alt.za> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="upas-mggnqetvbbsvuzenuuutlicsdx" Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 09:33:51 +0100 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7c816492-eacb-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --upas-mggnqetvbbsvuzenuuutlicsdx Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit I try just to keep the assumption that disk space is unlimited. If you run fossil backed up by venti, a script that clears all but the last N snapshots can keep your fossil partition with enough space that it's not worth reserving anything, IMHO. --upas-mggnqetvbbsvuzenuuutlicsdx Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Received: from mail.cse.psu.edu ([130.203.4.6]) by aquamar; Fri Mar 7 09:18:22 MET 2003 Received: from psuvax1.cse.psu.edu (psuvax1.cse.psu.edu [130.203.6.6]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id A67C419A26; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:18:07 -0500 (EST) Delivered-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Received: from cackle.proxima.alt.za (cackle.proxima.alt.za [196.30.44.141]) by mail.cse.psu.edu (CSE Mail Server) with ESMTP id D62C6199B9 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 03:17:32 -0500 (EST) Received: from cackle.proxima.alt.za (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by cackle.proxima.alt.za (8.12.8/8.12.3) with ESMTP id h278HG0G013722 for <9fans@cse.psu.edu>; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:17:22 +0200 (SAST) Received: (from lucio@localhost) by cackle.proxima.alt.za (8.12.8/8.12.3/Submit) id h278HDPs013721 for 9fans@cse.psu.edu; Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:17:13 +0200 (SAST) From: Lucio De Re To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] fossil: disk is full Message-ID: <20030307101711.F13434@cackle.proxima.alt.za> Mail-Followup-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu References: <60419362c44faaf6aa4278e2cf4a6f7d@plan9.escet.urjc.es> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.4us In-Reply-To: <60419362c44faaf6aa4278e2cf4a6f7d@plan9.escet.urjc.es>; from Fco.J.Ballesteros on Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:52:05AM +0100 Organization: Proxima Research & Development Sender: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu Errors-To: 9fans-admin@cse.psu.edu X-BeenThere: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu X-Reply-To: lucio@proxima.alt.za List-Id: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans.cse.psu.edu> List-Archive: Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:17:11 +0200 On Fri, Mar 07, 2003 at 08:52:05AM +0100, Fco.J.Ballesteros wrote: > > You can do what rsc said time ago, delete some snapshots before > using snap -a. You can use epoch to do so. Reserving space is ugly, but comes closer to the principle of least surprise. Is there a (fixed) amount of disk space worth reserving? ++L --upas-mggnqetvbbsvuzenuuutlicsdx--