Bug#192146: apt-get: nice if it warns very low disk space for normal system operation.

[Matt Zimmerman <mdz@debian.org>]

On Tue, May 06, 2003 at 08:49:45PM +0900, Chiaki wrote:

> When disk space is low, apt-get install something operation (invoked by
> superuser) can uses the disk space over the watermark for the ordinary
> user (as in ext2 filesystem) and as a result, when normal user tries to
> use the system it finds the filesystem in which /var/spool/apt is located
> having no usable space left.  Often this causes undesirable side effects.

s/apt-get install something/any/

This doesn't seem like apt's responsibility.  You could fill the disk just
as easily using tar or dd as with apt (more easily in fact).

In order for apt to warn about this, it would need to have an undesirable
amount of intelligence about the type and configuration of the filesystem.
apt doesn't know anything about filesystems, and there is no reason for it
to learn now.

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 - mdz