Intrepid botches

[Karl Larsen]

Erik Christiansen wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 02:56:04AM -0700, Karl Larsen wrote:
>   
>> For some reason Intrepid sets low maximum size for all of it's
>> directories. For example, the limit for the /home/karl/Desktop on
>> Intrepid is less than 699 MB!
>>     
>
> I'm probably going to regret this, but Karl would you care to describe
> how you imagine linux constrains the size of ~/Desktop to such a figure?
>
>   
>>     So I was d/l the Alternate CD of 8.04 and it was almost there with 
>> just 30 minutes to go and now I look and there is an error message 
>> saying there was too little space to store the file!!!! Sorry it says.
>>     
>
> Could you please post the output of:
>
> $ df -k
>
> Does your home partition by any chance show 100%? (Minus some minfree,
> perhaps)
>
>   
>>     I'm now 2% done with my second d/l of this file to 
>> /home/karl/Desktop/ on Hardy. I expect I have enough space...I always 
>> have for years!
>>     
>
> There are two ways to go through life: Attempt to impose an internal
> model on the real world (Managers so often fail because they are prone
> to this.); Or observe reality, learn, adapt, change what can be changed.
>
> You can do:
>
> $ df -k ~/Desktop
>
> to show just the home partition, but we'd better see them all.
>
>   
>>     If anyone knows how to measure the size limit on a directory I would 
>> like to know it.
>>     
>
> We probably all would.
>
> Erik
>
>   
    Well somewhere I read about ways to limit a user's space on a 
computer years ago maybe it was Windows?

    Here is my lap-top Intrepid:

karl at lap-top-linux:~$ df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              15G  3.2G   11G  24% /
tmpfs                 979M     0  979M   0% /lib/init/rw
varrun                979M  104K  979M   1% /var/run
varlock               979M     0  979M   0% /var/lock
udev                  979M  2.8M  976M   1% /dev
tmpfs                 979M  308K  978M   1% /dev/shm
lrm                   979M  2.0M  977M   1% 
/lib/modules/2.6.27-7-generic/volatile
karl at lap-top-linux:~$ df -h /home/karl/Desktop
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3              15G  3.2G   11G  24% /
karl at lap-top-linux:~$ du -h /home/karl/Desktop
6.3M    /home/karl/Desktop
karl at lap-top-linux:~$

    As you can see there is lots of space. I have only 6.3 mb of 
pictures. I made the partition 15 GB so it has room to grow.

    Right now I have the second d/l of Hardy is 50% from the same 
school. I hope it doesn't send another Sorry message :-)

Karl


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