Low Disk Space - KDE Daemon keeps popping up?
 

I keep getting a message that I'm running out of space on my home partition (11% full for all users). KDE seems to think that I've got -34% space free on /home and I need to free space so it keeps popping up a notification window.

I've not enabled quotas on this computer that I knew of.

What the heck is going on? How do I turn this thing off?

You have somehow enabled a disk space monitor. Maybe KDiskFree. There are two things you can do. First is to prevent it from running when you log in. The other is to stop it from creating a warning window when a disk gets full. Both of these are configurable within the KDiskFree application.

You probably have a KDiskFree icon on your task bar. Right click, open the application window, click 'Settings", click "Configure KDiskFree" and make the changes.

If you can't find the icon then you can open a terminal window and run it from the command line. The executable's name is kdf. So you would open a terminal window and type kdf at the prompt and press the enter key. That will open a KDiskFree window. Then follow the steps listed above.

Or use the du command.. to find where your disk usage is.

I started getting this too as of tonight, after doing an update of KDE to the latest releases. I have KwikDisk running, but then I've had it running for a long time.

My /home partition is 40% full. Using du reports 110GB used on a 250GB partition. The popup reports -9% free space available. I have yet to start diagnosing the problem and thought I would check here to see if any others are experiencing it.

Having it start happening after an full KDE upgrade makes me suspicious something was introduced during that upgrade that is resulting in an improper report of free space or a quote imposed I did not desire. It's late, so I'll look into this more tomorrow, but if anyone has a suggestion in the mean time, I'd be most greatful.

Please report the bug @ https://bugzilla.novell.com

Actually its already reported in bugzilla, but there is no real answer or patch available.

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=206376

Ok, then I'm not crazy. I ran an upgrade and it showed up. I didn't change any settings or enable KwikDisk or whatever.

For the record, it's only on my 64 bit machine, my 686 laptop is fine.

*edit* Just looked at Bugzilla, guess I'll wait for the next RPM upgrade.

Thank you all.

This is maddening. I came home to a hundred iterations of that blasted notification window.

I know, I know ... growing pains and all, but this is very nearly making KDE unusable, or at least so obnoxious that I'd rather not.

And I'm not real clear on this feature either. I don't want a daemon running, constantly checking by drive space, and popping up notices to me. I take care of that myself with scripts, thanks, and I want it turned off. I am assuming when this is fixed some sort of "don't ever bug me again with this stuff" option will be there.

Sorry ... no helpful content I know, just venting. I'm trying to work on something (and thus don't have the time at the moment to try to downgrade everything), and these popups are keeping me from being able to concentrate. It's almost Windoze-like in its obnoxiousness.

I shut up now.

I've been experiencing this infuriating problem as well. One word of advice: don't click the options of "Open Konqueror" and "never show me this dialog again". This will result in Kongueror opening for every "low disk space" event and filling up your desktop with hundreds of Konqueror file managers.

I haven't yet found where this setting is stored but do know that it is user based.

:groan: I made the same mistake. I thought it wouldn't ask me if I wanted to free disk space. Not that it wouldn't ask me if I wanted to open Konqueror and just open Konqueror all the time.

If you find out, let me know, because I've already made the mistake of doing this.

I'm curious ... Bugzilla reports that the bug is resolved. Okay, perhaps I'm dense, but it's not resolved in anything I can see. There's not a more recent update of any of the involved RPMs. I've redownloaded those RPMs upon taking the advice to use the "recompiled" RPM, and this did exactly nothing to fix the issue.

I wouldn't be so irritated if I weren't in the midst of hell week without any real time on my hands to run through this and look for other options. But anyway ...

The setting appears to be under:

/home/user_xyz/.kde/share/config/kdedrc
[Notification Messages]

I had to restart KDE for the setting to go into effect.

Funny I feel like I've posted this before....

This is a bug with KDE 3.5.4 (I'm on 3.5.1 and haven't seen it.) You can see the bug report here:

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=134081

Supposedly there's a fix on the way.

No, it's not funny, it's danged irritating to have this thing keep popping up.

I'll have to check out the user settings "fix" since I've not seen one come with an update.