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silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

I have never hated an idea that's probably very helpful more before

Sysadmin Lifehack - Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
Why All My Servers Have an 8GB Empty File
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Konstantin Ryabitsev 3 weeks ago • mastodon (AP)

Heh, I've done this before, but with lvm (leaving a spare 50G free in the VG for the possible oh shit situation).

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

Yeah, I definitely do that with my ZFS drive sizes

Jonathan Lamothe 3 weeks ago • diaspora

I was already doing this. It's terrible, but useful.

Jonathan Lamothe 3 weeks ago • diaspora

Just read the article over. It seems the author had the exact same rationale as I did.

silverwizard 3 weeks ago friendica

This is terrible! I mean, I guess it makes sense, but I really prefer just having unallocated disk space >,>