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		innomatics on March 25, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: All my servers have an 8 GB empty file on disk Nice. I liked the trick in the article, but was wondering if it might confuse the next admin who needs to figure it out. Was also thinking of customising the login greeting to mention the file (/etc/motd).

stjohnswarts on March 26, 2021 [–]

what if you named it "THIS_IS_A_BIG_FILE_IN_CASE_THE_DISK_FILLS_UP_DELETE_IN_EMERGENCIES.BIN"

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