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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > Was 'user' intended to be a template for making
> > other users, rather than to be used as 'user'?
>
> It doesn't matter (as long as you are consistent).
> Call your user "user" or "george" or whatever.
>
> > If you ever redo BL2
>
> I won't be going back.

Was there some reason other than oversight that you did not chown -R user 
/home/user yourself?

> > df showed that the number of bytes on /dev/ram0
>
> That's not what df shows.
What does df show?

> > So it should have fit,
>
> No, it definitely won't fit.
>
> > Something like 3600 vs 4000 free.
>
> The ramdisk contains 4096 kb.  No more, no less.
> Some of those bytes might be garbage (from deleted
> files or from whatever was previously in that block
> of RAM).  Some of those bytes might be zeros.  But
> you get the full quota of 4096 kb when you cat a
> 4mb ramdisk.

I did not know garbage was also catted.  I wonder why this worked the 
first few times.  Maybe I had created less garbage.  Anyway, it works if I 
cat to the hard drive instead of /tmp.