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Fun today so far: I've had to explain to an engineer that I cannot create a 1500 GB partition on a 900 GB SSD.
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William Pietri
William Pietri  
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Hah! Makes me think of this in a couple of ways: https://ashidakim.com/zenkoans/1acupoftea.html

1. A Cup of Tea

These koans, or parables, were translated into English from a book called the Shaseki-shu (Collection of Stone and Sand), written late in the thirteenth century by the Japanese Zen teacher Muju (the 'non-dweller'), and from anecdotes of Zen monks tak…
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FoolishOwl
FoolishOwl  
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Day two: there are now two engineers asking me to do this on two different systems.

One asked if I can create a tmpfs and add that storage to a partition.

silverwizard
silverwizard  
@FoolishOwl I mean - if you have 1TB of RAM you could do it!
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FoolishOwl
FoolishOwl  
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@silverwizard We don't have quite that much, and also, I think they're using the RAM for something.
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silverwizard
silverwizard  

@FoolishOwl Bah, who actually needs RAM

Fuck - I can't imagine people being so disconnected from their tools

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