On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 8:39 AM, Theresa Kehoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you have already made the new image then never-mind ... if not, there > was a situation last Saturday, where a student from late last year > brought in her computer, which wouldn't boot up.
Have not updated the image, yet. > The disk was completely full. Matthew deleted a few things which > allowed it to boot all the way into the GUI, and then we explained to > the student that she had to go through and delete some files to avoid > running out of room. > > In her case, the hard disk was 6GB; the OS and all its bits takes about > 3GB, so all she has for data storage is 3GB (which is pretty standard > for our students). > > Is it feasible to modify the Debian image so that /home/student is a > separate partition? Modifying the image is easy. Modifying the cloning scripts, not so easy. Therefore, I would say it is possible but not practical. Also, I suspect we would simply be substituting one issue for another. For example, if you decide to make two partitions (/ and /home) how big should each be? What do you do when you run out of space on the first partition? > Does anyone know if there is a way that Debian can warn a user when the > partition is getting close to 100% full? There are all kinds of ways, e.g. crontab. How does Windows do it? Regards, - Robert
