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.

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