sudo tail /dev/earth > /dev/null would clear the earth of the youngest dude/ettes first! your (good) intention however, is to clear the earth of the oldest (in keeping with the "first-in-first-out" principle) "until every remaining person can afford some decent acreage of arable land".
ama?Ndungi KyaloOn Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:17 AM, Simon Mbuthia <simon.mbuthia@gmail.com> wrote:
First of all, this operation should only be carried out by members in the sudoers list;
And old peeps should be gotten rid of, assuming /dev/earth is a kind of stack structure... So here's my suggestion:
sudo tail /dev/earth > /dev/null
Above operation may be repeated until /dev/earth has enough space to bring land prices down :-)
Me.2009/5/4 Tony Likhanga <tlikhanga@gmail.com>
cat /dev/null>/dev/earth
On 5/4/09, Odhiambo ワシントン <odhiambo@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 10:37 AM, Steve Muchai <smuchai@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Just got this of the NANOG list, couldn't resist the temptation to
>> share....
>>
>>
>> /dev/earth is 98% full. Please delete anybody you can.
>
>
> cp /dev/null /dev/earth
>
> Simple, right? It becomes empty in a split second:)
> Perhaps you need chflags noschg /dev/earth first, as it might be having the
> immutable bit set?
>
>
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