i have found the culprit. its a desktop search application called strigi, or something like that.
somehow it decided to fill the hard drive with as many 1gb files as it possibly could, totally trashing the entire computer system. and because it took up exactly ALL the space, i had no space, meaning i couldn't even start the computer. and after spending lots of time trying to delete those files by enetering the system only on the cd, i decided that trying to find the garbage bin in that system was simply more effort than to format the entire hard drive and install the system anew. To make matters worse, many of my files had been deleted in this catastrophe, meaning i must now spend two days remaking them. application should not have the right to take up any quantity of hard disk space they feel like. thats like having 1000 applications doing 10.000 different things and preying to god that none of them has a bug somewhere making them fill up the hard disk space non stop. the strigi application for instance should be severely limited by how much disk space it can fill up. and if not then there should at least be a warning saying the application may well completely destroy the entire computer system. Because thats the reality. Hermann Ingjaldsson -- mousepad disabling hard drive full even though its not https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/248393 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
