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On 2016-11-14 05:35, Unman wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 04:16:37AM -0800, Andrew David Wong wrote:
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>> On 2016-11-14 04:03, Salmiakki wrote:
>>> On Monday, November 14, 2016 at 10:31:25 AM UTC+1, Robert Mittendorf wrote:
>>>> On 2016-11-11 14:58, Marek Marczykowski-Górecki wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>> Actually I don't think it is a good idea. File copy protocol is
>>>>>>> intentionally very simple, including being unidirectional. We don't
>>>>> want
>>>>>>> to add any non-essential features there, to keep it as simple as
>>>>>>> possible.
>>>>>
>>>>>> BTW None of file copying tools I know do that (cp, rsync, scp, ...).
>>>> Well, I somewhat understand the first argument, but not the second. To
>>>> have a bad usability and waste poeple's time just because other tools do
>>>> is not a good argument I think.
>>>>
>>>> Obviously it is not unidirectional, otherwise the source would not know
>>>> "out of disk space". This does not have to be an interactive feature,
>>>> though.
>>>> Why not give the "out of disk space" error before accepting the
>>>> transfer? The communication from sink to source would be the same, but
>>>> less time would be wasted.
>>>
>>> Maybe it could be done more general by just popping up a warning saying 
>>> "this VM is low on disk space".
>>> It would not work for cases where you transfer extremely large files (or at 
>>> least it would only display the warning after transferring quite a large 
>>> chunk).
>>> However, it would also work for everything else!
>>> For example I once had a problem because I decided to sync my entire imap 
>>> folder for my mail VM and that is larger than 2 GB. The problem was 
>>> actually kind of hard to spot. Ideally of course, the warning would be 
>>> accompanied by an option to just extend the space (since it seems to be 
>>> possible to do that while the VM is running anyway).
>>>
>>
>> I've actually seen such a warning in 3.1 and earlier (haven't had cause to 
>> see it yet in 3.2), so it must already exist in some sense (or did exist). I 
>> never bothered to look into how the threshold is calculated, though.
>>
> That message is thrown by the qube itself. It's a standard free space
> check, not a Qubes thing.
> 

Oh, I know. But nonetheless, it's there, and it warns about low disk space in 
the qube.

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Andrew David Wong (Axon)
Community Manager, Qubes OS
https://www.qubes-os.org
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