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   FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 05:27:27 JST FoolishOwl

   Fun today so far: I've had to explain to an engineer that I cannot create a 1500 GB partition on a 900 GB SSD.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 05:27:24 JST silverwizard

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     @foolishowl I mean - if you have 1TB of RAM you could do it!
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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 05:27:25 JST FoolishOwl

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     Day two: there are now two engineers asking me to do this on two different systems.

     One asked if I can create a tmpfs and add that storage to a partition.

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     silverwizard (silverwizard@convenient.email)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 05:51:56 JST silverwizard

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     @foolishowl Bah, who actually needs RAM

     Fuck - I can't imagine people being so disconnected from their tools

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     FoolishOwl (foolishowl@social.coop)'s status on Wednesday, 20-Mar-2024 05:51:58 JST FoolishOwl

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     @silverwizard We don't have quite that much, and also, I think they're using the RAM for something.