ditto, I'm sure linux complains. but, as ever, if you want a belt and braces approach... there is a little shell script that you can tie to a cron job (along with a good discussion of its use on LANS etc.) at http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mac-osx-unix-get-an-alert-when-my-disk-is-full/
<http://www.cyberciti.biz/faq/mac-osx-unix-get-an-alert-when-my-disk-is-full/> regards, Phill. P.S., I've never had Disk Full (it is called keeping an eye on things), although I do recall running out of inodes many years ago on a UNIX server! On Thu, Jul 7, 2011 at 8:33 AM, Neil Greenwood <neil.greenwood....@gmail.com > wrote: > Ar Dydd Iau 07 mis Gorffennaf 2011 08:11:40 BST, ysgrifennodd john > beddard: > > "Linux doesn't seem to give a warning message when the hard-disk is > > full, instead the system seem to die and shut down." > > > > Has anyone come across this before. They said it was their main reason > > for not using Ubuntu ? > > > > John > > Ubuntu definitely pops up a message when the disk space gets low (as > long as it doesn't happen too quickly!), and offers help cleaning up to > make more space. I can't remember exactly which program is included in > the link: it could be baobab, a.k.a. Disk Usage Analyser. > > I saw it a couple of times while I was dual-booting this work PC, but > then I removed the Windows partition and I haven't seen it since! > > > Cofion/Regards, > Neil. > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ > -- https://wiki.ubuntu.com/phillw
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