129579 - When filesystem full, the prefs are incompletely saved

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 94010

(SeaMonkey :: Preferences, defect)

Description

[Gael]

From Bugzilla Helper:
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:0.9.9+) Gecko/20020305
BuildID:    20020305

Mozilla is running.
When the filesystem where the prefs are saved is full, the file prefs.js is
truncated.

Reproducible: Didn't try
Steps to Reproduce:
1. launch mozilla
2. fullfill the filesystem
3. modify the preferences
4. quit mozilla

Actual Results:  the prefs.js is truncated : 
example, my prefs.js

# Mozilla User Preferences
// This is a generated file!

user_pref("browser.cache.disk.parent_directory", "/home/gaal/.mozilla/gaal/q6scm
hdg.slt");
user_pref("browser.download.dir", "/home/gaal");
user_pref("browser.download.progressDnldDialog.keepAlive", false);
user_pref("browser.history.last_page_visited", "http://www.mozilla.org/start/");
user_pref("browser.search.defaultengine", "engine:///home/gaal/mozilla/searchplu
gins/google.src");
user_pref("browser.search.set_default.dont_ask_again", true);
user_pref("browser.startup.homepage_override.mstone", "rv:0.9.8+");
user_pref("intl.charsetmenu.browser.cache", "ISO-8859-1");
user_pref("mail.ui.folderpane.version", 2);
user_pref("mailnews.ui.threadpane.version", 2);
user_pref("plugin.soname.list", "libXt.so:libXext.so");
user_pref("prefs.converted-to-utf8", true);
user_pref("timebomb.first_launch_time", "1015521511961277");


Expected Results:  write the complete prefs.js

Comment 1

[Vadim Berezniker]

This happens with most applications, not just mozilla.

Do you suggest that mozilla check for free space?

Comment 2

[Gael]

Yes.
Mozila should check for free space. And don't overwrite or erase prefs and
bookmark if the free space is too low

Comment 3

[Vadim Berezniker]

this is a dupe of bug 94010 then
(checking for writing error is better than checking for free space because it
can catch other problems as well)

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 94010 ***

Comment 4

[sairuh (rarely reading bugmail)]

marking verified as a duplicate.

if you decide to reopen this bug, please clarify why.

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