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From: Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
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On Sat, 10 Oct 2015 20:16:12 -0400
nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

> In article <20151011021517.0cc303d6@maxa-pc>, Melzzzzz <mel@zzzzz.com>
> wrote:
> 
> > > > > classic mac os does not care if the disk is full. it can
> > > > > easily run with 0k free.
> > > > 
> > > > It depends on application. Error is there, therefore
> > > > application can act accordingly...
> > > 
> > > no it doesn't. an app in classic mac os can't write a file to a
> > > full hard drive no matter how hard it tries and the system will
> > > not crash.
> > 
> > Same on ext file systems... small amount is always reserved so
> > systems don;t crash,,,
> 
> what part of full is not clear? 0k free. no reserve. full.

Nonsense. How can you prevent an app not to fill up disk on Mac OS if
not reserving space? You get error only on disk full and disk is not
full until last byte is written... you know...
so if your Mac OS app writes size bytes it can fill up disk without
even getting disk full error, you got it now?