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

[Mikki]

Hi, all, 

and thanks for the feedback.  It is Monday Morning about 0500, and I have been reading the feedback.  

As I said, Rick, I an unable to call up the terminal function, now.  It worked after the last SFLUG Wed. meeting, but not now.  The 'find' function isn't finding it.  I will try the "examine 'button' " as Daniel suggested, to see what happens, but I really am not curious about the mechanics of the software. I like the security of Linux, and the "gnome" kind of interface ofusing Ubuntu, but am a bit too dyslexic to try wrestling with BASH.  I am a user, not a tinkerer.

I will not try to send a screenshot, ever again.

Bless All

Mikki




-----Original Message-----
>From: Rick Moen <rick at linuxmafia.com>
>Sent: Jul 30, 2017 11:18 PM
>To: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel at gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
>Cc: sf-lug at linuxmafia.com
>Subject: Re: [sf-lug] NEED INFO ABOUT BOOT SECTOR, SPACE LIMITS
>
>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
>
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