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This specification is about making boot and login work when there disk runs out of free space This specification is about making boot and login work when the disk runs out of free space

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Summary

This specification is about making boot and login work when the disk runs out of free space

Rationale

At the moment the desktop session doesn't start when there is no free space on the disk and let the user without any easy way to fix his system.

Use Cases

  • Michael just installed some new applications, ran out of disk space and didn't notice. The next login will warn him about the problem and let him to make some space.

Scope

The Ubuntu distribution

Implementation

  • Create a /var/overflow 1 megabyte tmpfs partition
  • Make gdm set TMPDIR to this partition if there is less than 1 megabyte available on /tmp
  • Display a dialog on login explaining that the user needs to free some space and then restart his session

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