Path: csiph.com!xmission!news.alt.net!not-for-mail From: owl Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.system,alt.comp.freeware,alt.hacker,alt.privacy.anon-server,comp.os.linux.advocacy Subject: Re: iCultist cites serious OS X flaw Date: Sun, 11 Oct 2015 22:11:55 +0000 (UTC) Organization: O.W.L. Lines: 26 Message-ID: References: <86549329f10d815d2e5922dee68cf94a@anemone.mooo.com> <101020152016124620%nospam@nospam.invalid> <20151011021930.15ee19c8@maxa-pc> <101020152027325453%nospam@nospam.invalid> <20151011023438.1184d0e0@maxa-pc> <101020152036036089%nospam@nospam.invalid> <20151011024021.28bb33a4@maxa-pc> <101020152043574556%nospam@nospam.invalid> <111020151118347197%nospam@nospam.invalid> <111020151241265475%nospam@nospam.invalid> NNTP-Posting-Host: boom.rooftop.invalid User-Agent: tin/2.2.1-20140504 ("Tober an Righ") (UNIX) (Linux/3.16.0-4-amd64 (x86_64)) Xref: csiph.com comp.sys.mac.system:83121 alt.comp.freeware:246090 alt.hacker:9155 alt.privacy.anon-server:46344 comp.os.linux.advocacy:326217 In comp.os.linux.advocacy nospam wrote: > In article , Chris Ahlstrom > wrote: > >> >> Linux reserves an amount (depending on disk size) for system / root usage. >> >> Even if applications fill all available space, the system keeps running >> >> because the reserved space is *not* accessible to applications >> >> >> >> So even if you set up your filesystem so idiotic like OSX does by default, >> >> linux will keep on running >> > >> > the fact that it reserves space proves my point. >> > >> > classic mac os could (and did) run with 0 bytes available. >> >> This article seems to indicate that all modern "UNIXen" (Linux, BSD, OSX) >> can keep going with *filesystems* that are full, spam: >> >> http://www.cyberciti.biz/datacenter/linux-unix-bsd-osx-cannot-write-to-hard-disk/ > > you're ignoring the reserved space which means the drive isn't actually > full. you're also ignoring that there are multiple mounted volumes. try > filling *all* of them to 0 bytes left. https://vid.me/HPyx