# soviet-disk-quota-or-how-i-blew-it-all-with-one-command.txt
## Feb 17, 2022
The first day I logged onto The Soviet I did what most new Sundogs do and poke
around with the local tools and bbs. I did some basic attempts at setting up my
gemini capsule, which I've done on another pubnix, and got a bit hung up on why
it wasn't working, which just turned out to be a permissions error.
After sorting that all out, I tried to look at The Soviet locally using the
`bombadillo` gopher browser, which I've used in the past and have packaged for
Debian. Unfortunately it gives a core dump, so something wasn't quite right with
it.
Today I finally poked around a bit more on the system, and cloned bombadillo
from source and built it to see if there was any obvious bug, which to my
surprise it worked.
```
ecliptik@soviet:~/git/$ git clone https://tildegit.org/sloum/bombadillo.git
ecliptik@soviet:~/git/$ cd bombadillo
ecliptik@soviet:~/git/bombadillo$ go build
ecliptik@soviet:~/git/bombadillo$ file bombadillo
bombadillo: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1
ecliptik@soviet:~/git/bombadillo$ ./bombadillo -v
Bombadillo 2.3.3
```
I moved it into `~/bin` and can now use it to browse some gopherholes.
Next on my list was to see if I could locally build Amfora for gemini://
browsing, but after cloning and doing a `go build` my terminal dumped a ton of
errors about exceeding disk quota. I remembered that Sundogs have a smaller
quota, and didn't even think about how many deps modern software pulls in,
especially something as complex as Amfora. So after cleaning up `~/go` I brought
my quota back to a reasonable use.
After doing this and browsing local Soviet Cells I came across a fellow new
Sundog, luna, who wrote a post about disk quotas and it's well worth the read.
(TXT) I've been here before, but I haven't 2022-02-15