On 7 July 2011 08:52, Alan Pope <[email protected]> wrote: > On 7 Jul 2011, at 08:12, john beddard <[email protected]> wrote: > > However last night, after easily engaging in the usual 'Diss List' of > Ubuntu inadequacy. We got given one 'Diss' that made me think. Baring in > mind that this is useful for us also. It was this : > > > > "Linux doesn't seem to give a warning message when the hard-disk is > > full, instead the system seem to die and shut down." > > > > What does windows or osx do in the same situation? > > I note that we provide a tool out of the box which allows users to > examine disk usage, detailing exactly where space has gone. Empowering > users to fix error situations themselves without having to call upon > expensive windows system administrators. > > > > Has anyone come across this before. They said it was their main reason > for not using Ubuntu ? > > > > I had an SSD run out of space on my desktop recently. Nothing bad > happened. I got a pop up and fixed the problem. > > On my server I ran out of space last week and it carried on fine. > > In some cases a server will fail if it runs out of space, particularly if processes are trying to write to swap or a database is trying to write to disk.
I had a situation a while back when ripping my CD collection to FLAC with Sound Juicer that the laptop's disk became full with no obvious reason why, until I found the 32Gb of temporary files in .gnome2... s/ -- Twitter: @sfgreenwood "Is this your sanderling?"
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