Printer accounting (now disk)

Leslie Mikesell les at chinet.chi.il.us
Tue Mar 6 02:00:54 AEST 1990


In article <2985 at auspex.auspex.com> guy at auspex.auspex.com (Guy Harris) writes:

>Second of all, the disk space usage he was referring to was for *files*,
>not for *swap space*.  Most UNIX systems don't "crash" if they run out
>of disk space for files, either....

Depends... Some real interesting things can happen to shell scripts
(or anything else using pipes without being careful about the status)
when pipedev is full.  If root is running the script it could cause
serious damage.

Les Mikesell
  les at chinet.chi.il.us



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