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Idea #2114: to tell that disk will be full soon

bug This idea is a duplicate of Idea #57: Warning about low disk space.
Written by nivus the 1 Mar 08 at 10:50. Category: System. Related project: Nothing/Others. Status: New
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When disk partition is full, some programs are just not working.
If you will know that partition gonna be full soon, it would be better.
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christopher_lees wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 11:17
Gnome already has a "Disk is about to become full" notification. By default, the warning is at 0.05% disk space left. However, limited users get denied further writes once the disk is 5% free (root can go right up until the very last byte on the disk).

It should probably be configured to something like 6.5% free space before the notification comes up. This value is changable: Go into gconf-editor and go to /desktop/gnome/volume_manager and find the "percent_threshold" key.

Auzy wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 11:25
This is a dupe


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