I haven’t read the article because documentation is overhead but I’m guessing the real reason is because the guy who kept saying they needed to add more storage was repeatedly told to calm down and stop overreacting.
Ballast!
Just plonk a large file in the storage, make it relative to however much is normally used in the span of a work week or so. Then when shit hits the fan, delete the ballast and you’ll suddenly have bought a week to “find” and implement a solution. You’ll be hailed as a hero, rather than be the annoying doomer that just bothers people about technical stuff that’s irrelevant to the here and now.
Was this that full shutdown everyone thought was going to be malware?
The worst malware of all, unsupervised junior sysadmins.
Human error…lol, classic.
Idiots, they ought to have switched to tabs for indenting. Everybody knows that.
Free disk space is just inventory and therefor wasteful.
Just delete some p0rn
Storage has never been cheaper.
There’s going to be a seppuku session in somebody’s IT department.
Free space is a wasted disk space.