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I've got an SSD drive for root and /home, and a larger HDD for storage. The storage disk is almost full, and there's a low disk space warning on startup. The warning doesn't have any "don't show again" option, only "ignore" and "examine". It also doesn't go away but sticks on the screen until the ignore button is clicked, so it's very annoying in addition to being competely unnecessary.

I tried unselecting the storage HDD in baobab's settings, but that didn't have any effect. I also tried gconf-editor, and looked for apps -> gnome_settings_daemon -> plugins -> housekeeping, but there is no "plugins" under "gnome_settings_daemon". Only "gtk-modules" and "keybindings".

Braiam
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grimripper
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Found via https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-settings-daemon/+bug/881376

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping active false

BuZZ-dEE
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Matz
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  • It's seems the key is no longer there. Key path seems to be now apps.gnome_settings_daemon.plugins.housekeeping, but there's no key active (indeed there are any key). I created it and it doesn't work. I created also free_size_gb_no_notify and it also doesn't work. I'm using gnome 3.26. – juanmah Oct 21 '17 at 02:37
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    This doesn't work anymore. – Aaron Franke Jun 21 '19 at 00:13
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There is a option in dconf-editor that appears to allow you to select ignore paths that run low on space here: org > gnome > settings-daemon > plugins > housekeeping > ignore-paths it takes a string array as an argument.

However, it seems to not do anything when I put the volume path using the following versions. Gnome 40 dconf-editor 3.38.3

M. Ruiz
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This is what worked for me:

Got to Settings -> Applications. In the search box, type disk. Click on Disk Usage Analyser. Next, click on the Notifications toggle switch to turn it off.

screenshot (Gnome 43.3)

Here is my SW versions:

$ uname -v
#40~20.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Sat Sep 18 02:14:19 UTC 2021

$ cat /usr/share/gnome/gnome-version.xml; echo
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<gnome-version>
 <platform>3</platform>
 <minor>36</minor>
 <micro>8</micro>
 <distributor>Ubuntu</distributor>
 <!--<date></date>-->
</gnome-version>
user598527
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Jardel Lucca
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Disable low disk space warning with gsettings

The notification can be turned off for a specific path (mount point of partition) with this command:

gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping ignore-paths "['/my/mount/path/to/ignore']"

Source

Show description of ignore-paths

gsettings describe org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.housekeeping ignore-paths

Specify a list of mount paths to ignore when they run low on space.

Show more settings for low disk space warning (and their values)

gsettings list-recursively | grep housekeeping

Gnome Version: 43.1
GSettings Version: 2.74.1

donkno
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First check your free space with df -h

This answer will not try to stop the warning, but maybe you are better off, freeing some space, for example you can free space used by apt-get: 

sudo apt-get autoclean
sudo apt-get clean
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    Thanks, but I'm not trying to free space, and I doubt apt-get would free space on the storage drive anyway – grimripper Sep 04 '12 at 05:19
  • Here I created a script to uninstall more useless stuff: https://askubuntu.com/a/576431/34298 – rubo77 Mar 25 '18 at 07:45