When the user fills up the hard drive

[Sean Hammond]

Thanis Vassilis, I added a couple of comments to the bug report. Looks
like the GNOME people are working on it or something.

On 12/4/06, Vassilis Pandis <pandisv at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
> --- 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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