Webdriver, IE and browser zoom level

So have you ever been running remote webdriver against Internet Explorer and received an error complaining about the zoom level? Even if you open the browser manually and reset the zoom level sometimes it will still happen. It's so annoying! Thankfully I found a solution.

When setting up the desired capabilities for the remote web driver there is a special option to ignore the zoom level. Here is an example in Java



Then go ahead and setup your remote webdriver using those DesiredCapablities and you normally would. You should notice that even if IE is set to 50% zoom, webdriver will not complain.

ZFS - Pool/Disk/Volume full - Can't rm!

So you realize your Open Indiana/Solaris/Whatever server is erroring on bootup because your storage is full. What do you do?

 You probably assume the same thing I did. Enter into recovery mode, delete a couple files, boot as normal. Well too bad since on ZFS that will not work! You'll most likely get an error message saying that you can't rm, the disk is full! Crap, what do you do now?

If you google you'll find a few solutions that people confirm as working. Unfortunately they did *not* work for me.

One is to use dd to zero out a file.

dd if=/dev/null of=some_file
rm some_file

I still got the same error when attempting to run dd that I got with rm.


Another popular solution is to pipe data over a large file

echo "1" > some_file
rm some_file

That also didn't work for me.


 The only solution that worked was to clear out old snapshots. Thankfully I had one available

zfs list -t snapshot
zfs destroy your_non_essential_snapshot

That freed up enough space to allow me to go clear out files I really didn't need (logs, packages, etc).


Hope that helps someone!