Bug 240863

Summary:	Warning Function if root Partition is nearly full
Product:	[I don't know] kde	Reporter:	KDE Brainstorm Submissions <brainstorm>
Component:	general	Assignee:	Ivo Anjo <ivo>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	codestruct, finex
Priority:	NOR
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Platform:	Unlisted Binaries
OS:	All
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Description KDE Brainstorm Submissions 2010-06-06 08:04:25 UTC

Version:           unspecified (using KDE 4.4.3) 
OS:                All

As KDE crashes, when the root partition is full, it is definitely a system function to warn the user if e.g. the root partition has less than 1 GB free.

So my Proposition is: There should appear a Notification with a big exclamation mark, when the root partition is nearly full!


This feature request was originally submitted through KDE Brainstorm, and has been submitted to Bugzilla due to popular demand. Original idea: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php?mode=idea&i=84952

Reproducible: Didn't try

Comment 1 Ivo Anjo 2010-06-15 23:20:49 UTC

Adding support for multiple partitions to the freespacenotifier kded daemon is on my todo list, I hope to do it for 4.6.

Comment 2 FiNeX 2011-02-02 17:02:31 UTC

@Ivo: look at bug #81653

Comment 3 Ivo Anjo 2011-02-02 22:40:35 UTC

(In reply to comment #2)
> @Ivo: look at bug #81653

Unfortunately even if I get this working for the root partition, it won't solve bug #81653, because KDE still won't handle getting disk full outside of KDE, and I kind of doubt you'll be able to get a lot done under KDE with a disk full, even if you can see the pop-up.

I think that bug is very important, but should be solved by KDM or startkde. The idea of freespacenotifier is more for user-stuff ("your crap folder is fulL") than system stuff, although I hope to add support for root anyway.

Comment 4 Ivo Anjo 2011-02-02 22:42:52 UTC

Just to add:
I do belive freespacenotifier can be used to *prevent* the situation, but that older bug is about KDE not dealing with the situation *after* it has happened, and it can happen anyway with or without support for watching root.

Comment 5 Gregor Mi 2014-11-02 19:54:46 UTC

see also Bug 340582 - "Free Space Notifier" should also report full root

Comment 6 Ivo Anjo 2014-11-03 14:42:57 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 340582 ***