How’s the “I can’t” work? If the installer is telling you it can’t that just mea...

solarmist · on Sept 29, 2022

The fact there’s a right way and wrong way to check free disk space is a problem in the first place.

astrange · on Sept 29, 2022

Pretty classic problem.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time-of-check_to_time-of-use

Similar assumptions about filesystems fail if they do data compression or dedupe files - you can easily overestimate how much space something is taking.

solarmist · on Sept 30, 2022

Ah. Ok that makes more sense.