🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Harrington (tph@longhorn.uucp) wrote:
[...]
: Data hardware, but it's been a few years.  Anyway, once the hard drive 
: filled up, most common commands became disabled, giving "disk full" 
: errors.  When this happened, you couldn't do *anything* with the
: system until you removed a few files.  Including, as it happened, 
: deleting files.  So you'd get an error message saying something like 
: "Cannot delete file.  Disk full."  At which point the mind would 
: boggle briefly at what to do next.  We had two of these beasts 
[...]

I saw this years ago with one of the first DOS-based disk compression
programs.  When the physical drive filled up (because of less that 2:1
compression) you were dead in the water.  You couldn't delete files.  I
suppose it needed a free space on the drive to write the new directory
layout, rather than reusing the same sectors?

I've also seen in MS-Windows a "low memory" error, stating that I should
try "closing a few applications" to free up some memory.  I got this error
while trying to exit Windows, and the only program running was the program
manager which refused to exit because of the error.
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