no warning when low disk space or even when disk full

[Kurt J. Bosch]

Binary package hint: kubuntu-desktop

Today on edgy with kde-desktop mozilla-thunderbird suddenly gave me only strange error-messages about could not import picture, could not save draft and finaly could not write temp-file when tried to send or at least save a new mail.

After poking arround a bit, I found my root-partition was full.

This is was df reports nomaly:
/dev/hda7 7850964 3775512 3676644 51% /
/dev/hda8 43332672 38139146 3852020 91% /home

For some unknown reason mpd wrote huge error.log files until disk was full.

I really think there should be a warning to the normal desktop-user, when such a thing happens to give him a chance to save his work.

Of course such a situation will be even more painfull when some one has done some large piece of work in some app and than can't figure out what to do to get it saved.