Re: Full Disk?

2016-02-05 Thread Dave Horsfall
On Mon, 1 Feb 2016, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Probably our recommendation at this time is: do not let your disk get > more than 90% full. OS X already has dialog boxes that warn you when > your disk is very full; don't ignore them. Dunno about the Mac, but my experience with other OS file-systems i

Re: Full Disk?

2016-02-01 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Mon, Feb 1, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > Probably our recommendation at this time is: do not let your disk get more > than 90% full. OS X already has dialog boxes that warn you when your disk > is very full; don't ignore them. ...which you don't see over ssh -- brandon s allb

Re: Full Disk?

2016-02-01 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Feb 1, 2016, at 5:10 PM, Jean-François Caron wrote: > Hi, we’re telling our Mac-owning students to use MacPorts in a university > course that uses python, and we’ve had a weird issue. > > One student’s hard drive was full, but instead of giving a useful error > message, MacPorts just downlo

Full Disk?

2016-02-01 Thread Jean-François Caron
Hi, we’re telling our Mac-owning students to use MacPorts in a university course that uses python, and we’ve had a weird issue. One student’s hard drive was full, but instead of giving a useful error message, MacPorts just downloads as much as it can, then cancels and tries to download from ano