Comment 15 for bug 22842

in fact the situation has improved with karmic as there is this popup window telling you that you are running low on disk space now. i think it kicks in as soon as free disk space drops below 2 gb but it might be a percentage, too.

it offers you to empty the trash and warns you that you are running in serious trouble (even though the wording could be still more dramatic, because i witnessed quite some data loss due to this bug).

so the problem is not really fixed, but something changed for the better.