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When I was in sixth form, I taught my friend how to create empty files using Python. He soon learnt that you could get around the quota enforcer this way.

He was curious to see what would happen if you filled the entire drive to maximum so he ran the code for an ~8TB file. Before he could delete it, he was told to log off. Nobody could save their work and backups weren't performed for 24 hours.

It's safe to say they weren't impressed when they found this.

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  • 12
    Lollz, Reminded Me When I Filled 100 GB With An Infinite Loop In C++ , Old Days 😃
  • 4
    @skrilltrax I rather played with VMs even back in the beginnings. Fork bombs and similar lovely stuff. :D
  • 4
    @KeyWeeUsr I Started Using VMs Back When I Was 12 Or So...

    P.S. : I'm Still In High School.
    P.P.S : I'm 17 Only.
  • 7
    I can imagine that feeling when your friend realized he couldn't undo his "experiment".
  • 1
    i did by accident on a linux router the same thing but used till the last inode, i couldnt deleted , i have to reflash the router with openwrt. btw great firmware. =)
  • 1
    @JAnken123 it checked the student's directory size after a file had been updated or added for them to manually delete. It wasn't the best.
  • 0
    @skrilltrax you my friend are a complete mad cunt!!!!
  • 1
    I think you went to my sixth form...
  • 0
    "what's testing in production?"
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