From: John Hood (jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us)
Date: 04/14/93


From: jhood@smoke.marlboro.vt.us (John Hood)
Subject: Re: Kernel crash: Need help fixing my Ext2fs
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 1993 21:05:30 GMT

In article <1qgakk$15f@agate.berkeley.edu> umminger@purina.berkeley.edu (Frederick W. Umminger) writes:
>
> I should mention this also, now that I've noticed it; my
>ext2fs apparently ran out of space, at least for normal users,
>just before the crash. Taylor uucp is taking up 17 megs of disk
>space! How absurd. Has ext2fs been tested extensively for its
>behaviour when it runs out of space?

Taylor UUCP is taking up 17 megs of disk space (yes, how absurd)
because the default compile flags include debugging information, and
apparently there is lots of it in Taylor uucp binaries. Strip the
binaries and uucico will go from two-odd MB to 200k.

  --jh

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