[Gllug] Wiping free space.

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David Damerell wrote:
> On Friday, 1 Jan 2010, JLMS wrote:
>   
>>> picked up. (I'm assuming here a / containing only those things which
>>> *must* be on /: in particular I'm assuming /var is a separate
>>> filesystem, as are /home and /tmp.)
>>>       
>> You assume far too much.
>>     
>
> I'm not sure that is an inappropriate assumption. Of course many
> systems are not like that - but you can't talk sensibly about what
> will happen "if / fills up" if you're also effectively talking about
> "if /var fills up" "if /tmp fills up" and so forth.
>
>   

For the record I was imagining the main use would be on desktops and
laptops.

Cheers,

Roger.
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