Bug#407442: general: few free disk detection

[Santiago Vila <sanvila@unex.es>]

On Thu, 18 Jan 2007, Jean-Michel wrote:

> Package: general
> Severity: wishlist
> 
> On a filesystem which might fragment on low disk space(such as
> ext2/ext3), 
> might be the system should detect this condition, and inform, in some
> way, the root, and the user who tries to write on this disk, or the user
> which has moste data on this disk, that unusefull files should be
> removed.

There are already disk quotas for that, and the system admin is free
to use them or not. Are you trying to imply that disk quotas should be
mandatory?

Please be more specific, not just about the feature you have in mind
(which I still don't fully understand), but also about why do you
think lack of such feature is a bug.

[ While doing so, please remember that this is Unix, not Windows ].