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On Sun, 30 Mar 2014 13:01:58 -0400 |
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Rich Freeman <rich0@g.o> wrote: |
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> On Sun, Mar 30, 2014 at 12:48 PM, Ciaran McCreesh |
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> <ciaran.mccreesh@××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> > When you're told you'll need 1GB of disk space, if you have exactly |
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> > 1GB |
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> > + 1 byte of disk space left then you need more disk space whichever |
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> > way things are being measured. |
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> So, can you fit a 995MB file on a filesystem with 1GB of space |
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> remaining? The answer is a big depends when the authors of du, ls, |
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> and df (and their counterparts on other operating systems) can't agree |
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> on definitions. |
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The answer is that if you need to try, you're in trouble. But since |
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check-reqs doesn't give you that kind of precision, no-one cares anyway. |
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Ciaran McCreesh |
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