When the user fills up the hard drive

[Matt Zimmerman]

On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 01:44:49PM +0000, Sean Hammond wrote:
> Either way, something needs to be done to prevent the system from
> going down so hard if the disk gets filled. In the case of the user
> who phoned me, I had to switch to a virtual terminal, login, explore
> his home directory and find some suitably large yet unimportant files
> to remove, mount his external hard drive manually, then move the files
> onto it, unmount the drive safely, logout and switch back to GDM. I
> showed him what I was doing, but it's a pretty involved process that
> requires having a lot of Linux commands committed to memory. There's
> no way he remembered enough to do it himself in the future.

Yes, this is simply a bug (and already filed in Launchpad) which should be
fixed.  Partitioning is not the issue, and there may be more than one
underlying bug at work.

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 - mdz