[ale] Help - DEB Pkg Hell

Geoffrey Myers lists at serioustechnology.com
Mon May 23 10:17:22 EDT 2011


JD wrote:
> On SunOS, 'man tunefs' had the quote I used.
> 
> See ref:
> http://miroirs.cesars.org/man/pages/SunOS-4.1.3/man8/tunefs.8.txt
> 
> I thought everyone knew this. ;)
> This goes to show what is wrong with man pages today. ;)

That is funny.  I'd never seen it in print, but heard the 'tune a 
kernel' quote a number of times in my early years at AT&T.

> 
> 
> On 05/23/2011 08:07 AM, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>> JD wrote:
>>> CRAP!  You were completely correct! 97% inodes used.
>>> Ruby gems suck inodes.
>>>
>>> $ df -i
>>> Filesystem            Inodes   IUsed   IFree IUse% Mounted on
>>> /dev/sda1             247504  228703   18801   93% /
>>>
>>> After cleaning a few files, I was able to clean up some kernel packages
>>> too.  On that one box, everything is fine, but the issue on the other
>>> machines is definitely different.
>>>
>>> What's the moral to this story?  On dev systems, you probably do not
>>> want the default FS settings.
>>>
>>> "You can tune a filesystem, but you can't tune a fish."
>> I believe the correct quote is:
>>
>> You can tune a kernel, but you can't tune a fish..
>> :)
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Until later, Geoffrey

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