Comment 13 for bug 22842
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| rhill (rhill-fr-ca) wrote Re: Many programs misbehave when running out of disk space | #13 |
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I experienced a similar problem of out-of-space disk with no warning. This was filed as Bug 381901 (https:/
A fresh install of Ubuntu 9.04 with the option of transferring my documents/settings from a resident Windows XP installation caused my /home mount to completely fill silently (I didn't expect to have so much data on my XP install), and the installation was unable to create the "Desktop" directory in my user account -- without any warning. The symptom was that when I tried to login after the installation, I was presented with a blank desktop, with no warning as to what was wrong. There was also no warning during installation about the out-of-space condition of my /home mount.
The absence of warning made it difficult to identify the problem, and I persisted in trying to figure out the problem only because booting from the CD showed me that Ubuntu was working fine on my laptop. I am new to Linux and wanted to give it a try, and I almost gave up trying to find out what was not working. A simple warning about the out-of-space condition would have saved hours in figuring the problem (and thus the solution). The absence of warnings about out-of-space conditions could turn newcomers experiencing the same problem away from Linux.
Also, at install time, maybe it would be best to import the user documents/settings from Windows *after* Ubuntu install itself completely? It seems the Desktop folder used by GNOME is created after the import at install time. (Sorry if I don't make sense in part or whole, I am new to Linux.)