Parkinson's Law of Data

Raymond, E. S. Parkinson's Law of Data. The Jargon File.

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• Parkinson's Law
  • In disk and storage, capacity fills regardless of how much is added.

    This sourceThe documented computing folk-law that "data expands to fill the space available for storage," the storage/disk instance of the Parkinson-form pattern. Resolves needs-source-356; the named law is documented though it is a folk observation rather than an empirical study.

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