On Jan 29, 2008 1:47 PM, Jeff Blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeffrey Altman wrote: > > Jeff Blaine wrote: > >> We had a user complain this week about having no clue what > >> "No space left on device" meant. > >> > >> Regardless of this particular user's inability to deduce > >> that there was "NO SPACE LEFT", I like to take these > >> opportunities to consider improvements. > >> > >> "Disk, partition, or volume has insufficient free space" > >> > >> Better yet, why does it have to be so vague? Can't it > >> determine the actual problem, at least for the 90% case > >> of quota limit? > >> > >> "Quota for volume u.jblaine has been exceeded." > > > > Which client? > > > > Which platform? > > > > What produced the error message? > > Well, the message has been there in that form for as long > as I can remember on any UNIX platform I've touched. > > This was a Solaris 9 box. The message was caused by his > home directory volume being over quota. > > Sure, but it's not our error.
The custom locale is probably the best answer, but it's not ours to give you.
