When the user fills up the hard drive

[Vassilis Pandis]

--- Sean Hammond <sean.hammond at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'm told that if a user fills up the entire hard drive on Windows XP
> and then restarts the machine Windows will more or less keep running,
> because a certain amount of space is always reserved for the page
> file. So the user will still be allowed to login, although the system
> will probably complain lots and go very slow. But they'll get warnings
> about the disc being full and have a chance to take action.
> 
> I recently got a panicked phone call from an Ubuntu user who had
> filled the disk (disc?) up. It's partly his fault -- he ignored
> Ubuntu's warnings that he was running out of space and kept
> downloading, then restarted the computer. When you do this on Ubuntu,
> you find that you can't login to GNOME. It doesn't give you any reason
> either, just drops you back at GDM. 


This is bug 35217, https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+source/gdm/+bug/35217
If memory serves me well, there is at least one more unmarked duplicate on 
Launchpad (I can't find it at the moment). https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+bug/22842
is also related.


		
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