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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail and full disks
From:       Nicolas Goutte <nicog () snafu ! de>
Date:       2002-01-18 20:04:01
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Just a few problems about what is told in this thread:

- A user could have quotas.
- $KDEDIR could be read only.
- $HOME, /tmp and /var/tmp (or any other directory in which you will have to 
write) could be on multiple partitions. You would have to check them all.

Have a nice day/evening/night!

On Friday 18 January 2002 10:23, Pavel Troller wrote:
> > So in order for that to work, you'd have to start warning when
> > there's still disk space left. Is that what you meant?
>
> Hi!
>   I think it's not universal enough. An user can e.g. grab an audio CD and
> totally fill his disk, although he had still 500 MB before a short while.
> The "warning daemon" would check the disk space every few second for this
> to work.
>   And what about an "emergency file" ? During first KDE login for an user,
> KDE would create an (empty) file, e.g. 1 MiB long, somewhere in the $KDEDIR
> hierarchy. This file could be used for emergency purposes i.e. when the
> disk becomes full, and some config could be stored there.
>                                           With regards, Pavel Troller
 
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