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It's not intrinsically bad, but something to be extremely careful about. You do not want to completely run out of space on a drive when the operating system requires more incidental space than you have, or whatever your computer tries to write next will simply fail. The consequences of that will depend on what it was trying to save.

Sudden "space-eaters" can include an unexpectedly large swap file (perhaps caused by memory leaks, etc), a sleep image which can take up as much HDD space as you have RAM, and large output files from programs. You simply need to always be certain that you're not going to run out of space.

Best-case scenario is when there is no more space for a swap file and the system will usually just crash with no long-term ill effects.

It's usually safe to fill up partitions that do not have an operating system on them (ie on a media storagean external hard drive where you manually archive your data). Performance can decrease if the drives fill up, but if you're constantly running with high disk usage then you should really just get another hard drive so you can stop worrying.

It's not intrinsically bad, but something to be extremely careful about. You do not want to completely run out of space on a drive when the operating system requires more incidental space than you have, or whatever your computer tries to write next will simply fail. The consequences of that will depend on what it was trying to save.

Sudden "space-eaters" can include an unexpectedly large swap file (perhaps caused by memory leaks, etc), a sleep image which can take up as much HDD space as you have RAM, and large output files from programs. You simply need to always be certain that you're not going to run out of space.

Best-case scenario is when there is no more space for a swap file and the system will usually just crash with no long-term ill effects.

It's usually safe to fill up partitions that do not have an operating system on them (ie on a media storage drive where you manually archive your data). Performance can decrease if the drives fill up, but if you're constantly running with high disk usage then you should really just get another hard drive so you can stop worrying.

It's not intrinsically bad, but something to be extremely careful about. You do not want to completely run out of space on a drive when the operating system requires more incidental space than you have, or whatever your computer tries to write next will simply fail. The consequences of that will depend on what it was trying to save.

Sudden "space-eaters" can include an unexpectedly large swap file (perhaps caused by memory leaks, etc), a sleep image which can take up as much HDD space as you have RAM, and large output files from programs. You simply need to always be certain that you're not going to run out of space.

Best-case scenario is when there is no more space for a swap file and the system will usually just crash with no long-term ill effects.

It's usually safe to fill up partitions that do not have an operating system on them (ie on an external hard drive where you manually archive your data). Performance can decrease if the drives fill up, but if you're constantly running with high disk usage then you should really just get another hard drive so you can stop worrying.

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Moriarty
Moriarty
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It's not intrinsically bad, but something to be extremely careful about. You do not want to completely run out of space on a drive when the operating system requires more incidental space than you have, or whatever your computer tries to write next will simply fail. The consequences of that will depend on what it was trying to save.

Sudden "space-eaters" can include an unexpectedly large swap file (perhaps caused by memory leaks, etc), a sleep image which can take up as much HDD space as you have RAM, and large output files from programs. You simply need to always be certain that you're not going to run out of space.

Best-case scenario is when there is no more space for a swap file and the system will usually just crash with no long-term ill effects.

It's usually safe to fill up partitions that do not have an operating system on them (ie on a media storage drive where you manually archive your data). Performance can decrease if the drives fill up, but if you're constantly running with high disk usage then you should really just get another hard drive so you can stop worrying.