Comment 8 for bug 99044
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| jfbilodeau (jfbilodeau) wrote Re: KDM does not work if disk is full and gives no warning about it | #8 |
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>As time goes by, larger and larger disks become available, preventing users from running out of disk space.
I strongly disagree with that statement. It's true that disks will get larger, but so will user files.
>This issue should be worked on with KDE (or actually Nokia) to get a very low level fix for this in Qt and a KDE wrapped >warning, for any kind of Qt/KDE based file operation.
I don't think it needs to be that complex. A simple test should be done during log-in to ensure that either enough disk-space is available, or that creation/changes to files are successful. Otherwise, KDM should notify the user of the failure.
Another idea would be to allow the login to succeed, but notify the user that they are out of disk space. This way, they can delete unnecessary files.
Though having a low-level fix is probably a good idea for all KDE apps, I don't think it's something that is as urgent as fixing this bug.