Strigidaemon

[Uwe Thiem]

On Wednesday 02 April 2008, Alex Merry wrote:
> On Tuesday 01 April 2008 21:35:54 David Johnson wrote:
> > On Tuesday 01 April 2008 08:55:28 am John Tapsell wrote:
> > > So we need sensible defaults.  How about using up to 5% of disk
> > > space, and then asking the user whether to go above 5%?   That
> > > way the user is asked if the index becomes 'unreasonable'
> > > large, but isn't bothered by popups when first using kde.
> >
> > IMO, leaving 5% is not sensible. The Windows/Linux standard of
> > using one large 500Gb partition is common, but hardly
> > ubiquitious. Leaving me only 5% on my 2Gb home partition is
> > unreasonable. There are many use cases where temporary disk usage
> > may need more than 5% of a partition. Building software is a good
> > example.
>
> I read it as using 5%, not leaving 5%.  Which I think is perfectly
> reasonable, as long as Chani's comment about what to do if there's
> only, say, 3% of the disk space left is taken into account.

Think of thin client installations as well where, say, 20 users share 
one /home partition. 5% per user would then use the whole partition. 
*Not* that I have a better answer.

Uwe

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