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Perhaps a plasmoid for this task could be requested

Personally I think this should be integrated more into KDE than just a plasmoid.

aapgorilla wrote:it doesnt warn, so when it is full it will be too late and you can't log in graphically anymore, look at how gnome does it this warning. why can't kde have this simple user friendly warning

It warns me.

There is a freediskspace KDED module in trunk, that will become 4.5 soon:
http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdebase ... enotifier/

I haven't tested it, but the README only talks about the home partition.
Maybe you guys should ask the author of this, whether he could expand it to monitor / too?

Submitted: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=240863

Hello. I'm the maintainer of the free space notifier daemon thingy.
The initial version in svn, that is going to be in 4.5 monitors your home folder and shows you something like this:
http://mail.kde.org/pipermail/plasma-de ... t-0001.png

Configuration-wise, you can only turn it on or off, and set the target diskspace below which the daemon will warn you:
http://tvtel.pt/knuckles/pictures/configoptions.png

A keen observation is that if your root partition contains your home, it will also be watched

On my todo list, I have two things:
- Launch filelight instead of dolphin, if filelight is installed (maybe launch konqueror with file size view instead of dolphin)
- Support for multiple partitions. It seems simple, but I still need to think a bit about this: do I only notify about the filesystems seen at kde session start? Do I also include removable media? What are reasonable defaults for the various partitions? What to do if more than one partition is running low on disk space, issue multiple warnings, or just one unified one?

So if you have any suggestions or ideas, feel free to add them here, or open a feature request assigned to me.