Re: disk usage on dwelling

Roland John Turner (rjturner@nospam.socs.uts.edu.au)
Tue, 12 Sep 1995 11:17:48 +1000 (EST)

Scott Hopwood wrote:

> No, they'll just use it up.
>
> Why don't you create a stocastic process that when things start getting
> full, randomly selects a user (with a bias toward those using more space)
> and dumps their account to tape.
>
> It's fair(ish) and encourages users to keep space down.
>
> (yes, I do jest ... then again ...)

Hell, I thought it was a good idea :-)

> (Actually, why not get all the brains of progsoc together and develop
> the *sillest* way of keeping disk usage down - you never know, from the
> strangest places a good idea may come - and the combined might of
> progsocs brain is a very silly place indeed.)

OK, in the same vein, rather than the usual "look for a delete binaries,
object files, cores, a.outs, and big files" how about "for those users
using most space, delete their SMALLLEST files". Completely ineffective
at reclaiming disk space, but losing a .cshrc is a pain in the neck.

(I really was being silly...)

- Raz