[sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Daniel Gimpelevich (daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us):

> Why not just look at it? The screenshot is right there in her post.

Or, the other possibility:  She attempted to post some ridiculously
overlarge graphical attachment that resulted in her message not getting
accepted by the mailing list, but she also CC'd you personally (such
that you _did_ get a copy).

Looking at the Mailman records, I see that is the case:  Mikki attempted
to send a _1/2 megabyte_ image file to the mailing list.  That's around
10x larger than Mailman's size limit on any posting.


And that brings me to the other point, actually.  Daniel (and others),
please do _not_ forward Mikki's picture to the mailing list, because
there's actually a really good reason for that size limit:  It's really
bad netiquette to send binary attachments to most mailing lists,
especially pretty big ones.  People shouldn't do that.  People also
shouldn't _try_ to do that.

The alternative, the obvious and correct alternative, is to post the
mailing list to any of dozens of free image hosting services and post
the URL.  E.g.:

https://www.lifewire.com/free-image-hosting-sites-3486329
https://www.thebalance.com/top-free-image-hosting-websites-1357014


Anyway, after all that, Mikki tried to waste half a meg of archive space
and a bunch of time for each and every subscriber downloading the
picture, interested or not, in order to pass along a GNOME message:

     Low Disk Space
     The volume "boot" has 0 bytes disk space remaining.

That's a grand total 67 bytes of explanation (text contents), to
transmit which Mikki wanted to splurge 1/2 megabyte.

See, this is why Mailman has message size limits, to discourage that
sort of thing.



Mikki, you evidently have at least one filesystem that GNOME thinks is
called 'boot', and you filled it to capacity with something.  Maybe you
should find and fix that.

Also, maybe you should do the wise thing Daniel suggested you do.  He
said:

   Please paste the output of this command:
   df -h