Norton Go Home! We don't want you!

[Tim Tsai]

In article <466 at bria> uunet!bria!mike writes:
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>along and asks how much disk there is.  The OS lies, saying there are 'x'
>free blocks, when there really is not.  I start creating files, and
>*whoom* run out of real disk space, and my program (while in the middle of
>rebuilding an index to a large database) crashes.

  Woa.  Can somebody confirm this?  I thought NU is supposed to
  overwrite the so-called "freed" space when the "real" disk space
  starts to run out?

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