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Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space

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On Mon, 7 Jan 2013 15:49:30 -0800 (PST), faraz@squashclub.org wrote:
> There was some disk space issues with my server. As a result any script
> I had that opened a file for writing would clobber it i.e truncate it to
> zero length . Since there was no space left on device, nothing would be
> written to it.
>
> Are there any workarounds to this? Here is some code I came up, but it is untested as I currently have disk space on my account:
>
> /////////////////////////////
>
> function check_disk_space() {
>
> global $home_dir;
>
> $fp = fopen( "$home_dir/cgi-bin/scripts/check_disk_space" , "w" );
>
> fwrite ($fp, 'hello world' ) ||  die_sub ( 'Error checking for disk space' );
>
> fclose ($fp) || die_sub ( 'Error checking for disk space' );
>
> // unlink ( 'check_disk_space' );
>
> } // end function

Freeing up some space on the device is out of the question?

-- 
"If Ace [Double] Books ever came out with an edition of The Bible, both 
books would be edited down to 40,000 words, and they'd be renamed 
"Master of Chaos" and "The Thing With Three Souls."
              -- Terry Carr

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Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space faraz@squashclub.org - 2013-01-07 15:49 -0800
  Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space Adam Harvey <usenet@adamharvey.name> - 2013-01-08 01:07 +0000
  Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space "Peter H. Coffin" <hellsop@ninehells.com> - 2013-01-07 21:47 -0600
  Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space Anders Wegge Keller <wegge@wegge.dk> - 2013-01-08 09:16 +0100
  Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2013-01-08 10:26 -0500
  Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space "Twayne" <nobody@devnull.spamcop.net> - 2013-01-08 13:01 -0500
    Re: Files getting clobbered when I run out of disk space "M. Strobel" <sorry_no_mail_here@nowhere.dee> - 2013-01-08 23:20 +0100

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