On Mon, Nov 14, 2016 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Robert Mittendorf wrote: > > > It isn't the TOOL here that will "waste people's time". They waste > > their own time by not checking beforehand. > Why should a user always check the free disk space, if a tool can easily > do it? That's wasting time as well. Especially in the Qubes environment, > where you are easily handling tens of "disks" (at least one per Qube) > and you most likely do not always now which disk is how big and how full.
The obvious answer is that they would check to avoid wasting time. Can a tool do this? Obviously. And it could try to automagically clean up and find free space. Do I want that in Qubes? Not really. > > There are some OS and tools > > that try to fix this, but you see plenty of users baffled by the way > > they work, and unsure why the warning arise. Best to keep it simple imo. > > > > unman > One basic principle of usability is to make it hard to make mistakes > (including destroying work/files). > > As I stated before I think the protocol would not have to become "more > non-unidirectional" to improve on this. There is, I think, no question of destroying work or files. The simplicity of the tools militates against that. Obviously, if you want to add this feature, you can. A simple wrapper like this could be a start: #!/bin/bash DEST=$1 FILE=$2 SIZE=`du -B 1K $FILE|cut -f1` FREE=`qvm-run $DEST df /rw --output=avail|tail -n1` if [ $FREE -gt $SIZE ] then qvm-copy-to-vm $DEST $FILE else echo "Not enough space on $DEST!" fi Obviously this should be implemented using the qrexec framework unman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "qubes-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to qubes-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to qubes-users@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/qubes-users/20161114145851.GC9627%40thirdeyesecurity.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
