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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: kmail and full disks
From:       Waldo Bastian <bastian () kde ! org>
Date:       2002-01-18 20:37:18
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On Friday 18 January 2002 01:23 am, 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.

Even that can easily fail... if I have 10Mb free, root might have reserved 5Mb 
of it. I could create a 1Mb file, when root then allocates 5Mb I could free 
my 1Mb, but the 5Mb that is then free would all be reserved for root. I still 
wouldn't be able to write anything.

Cheers,
Waldo
-- 
bastian@kde.org  |   SuSE Labs KDE Developer  |  bastian@suse.com


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