Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 23 March 2006 13:54, Anders Storsveen wrote: > >> Nigel Henry wrote: >> >>> On Thursday 23 March 2006 12:18, Felix E. Klee wrote: >>> >>>> Is there a KDE tool that monitors disk space and that warns the user if >>>> a partition reaches a certain fill state? >>>> >>> Hi Felix. I normally use Kdisk free, which is on the "System" menu. It >>> shows the state of discs with a graph, and I've just looked in the help >>> file for it, and see there, that there is also a setting, under "General >>> Settings" for an alert window to pop up, if a disc gets critically full. >>> >> I've used it for a while too, but it doesnt work :/ I've ran out of >> space without warning lots of times... Luckily I usually have an open >> terminal, or i'd be f*cked. >> > > Hi Again Anders. I don't know it you want to continue this discussion. Please > let me know. I've had another look at Kdiskfree. I've trying loading up a > small partition until it redlines. Ksdiskfree's warning does work, but only > if you have it open on the desktop, or minimized to the panel. This isn't a > great deal of help, but I suppose just leaving it minimized isn't a big deal > when you logout, and shutdown, and is just taking up a bit of panel space, > and a few CPU cycles. > > hehe, I basically wanted to just say that it didn't work, but it's great that you have looked into it, and confirming and finding out what the problem is. I do think kde should have native support disk-full stuff anyway, and not handled (poorly) by a addon app. ;) > Also you only get the one warning message when Kdiskfree changes from a > greenline to a redline. Logging out and back in, gives no further warnings, > and adding more data to the overfilled drive gives no further warning. Same > goes if you logout, shutdown, and reboot. You either fix it when you get the > warning or take the consequences. > > I'm also having a look at K System Guard. System Notifications shows a line > for K System Guard, showing "Sensor exceeded critical limit" , and will > display a messagebox. Again you possibly have to have K System Guard open on > the desktop for this to work, but the help pages say that it can also be run > in daemon mode. I presume by this that it will always be running in the > background. Perhaps running it this way will display warning message boxes. > There are some caveats though for running K System Guard in daemon mode. I'll > play around with it this evening. > > It's not nice redlining, and have on;y had this happen once on my Gentoo > install. Emerge puts a large ammount of data in the archives, and it doesn't > take long to achieve state critical. > > The Kdiskfree critical warning experiment was carried out on FC2, and using > KDE 3.3.2-14.FC2. > > Nigel. > >>> Nigel. >>> ___________________________________________________ >>> . >>> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >>> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >>> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >>> >> ___________________________________________________ >> . >> Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. >> Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. >> More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. >> > ___________________________________________________ > . > Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. > Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. > More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html. > ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.