On Jan 29, 2008 1:25 PM, Jeff Blaine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We had a user complain this week about having no clue what > "No space left on device" meant. >
Not to mock them, seriously... english was their second language? I am just curious, it made perfect sense to me in 1991 but I get the idea there are lots of wordings in the AFS code which derive from things you'd hear in Pittsburgh, in particular, and, guess where I was? However, in this case we can't take credit: #define ENOSPC 28 /* No space left on device */ > 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? > It's a unix error. I can't get (Apple,Sun,Linux,HP,SGI) to fix it.
