baobab scans AFS volumes by default

[Niklas Herder]

Binary package hint: gnome-utils

When starting Disk Usage Analyzer (baobab), it scans
my afs mounts. This seems very unnecessary, and should at least not be the default.

Network mounts should generally not be scanned by baobab.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
Date: Thu Oct 8 09:51:12 2009
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.10
ExecutablePath: /usr/bin/yelp
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs nvidia
Package: yelp 2.28.0-0ubuntu1 [modified: usr/bin/yelp]
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=sv_SE.UTF-8
 LANG=sv_SE.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.31-12.40-generic
SourcePackage: yelp
Uname: Linux 2.6.31-12-generic x86_64

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

Sorry, I used the 'Help' menu option 'Report a problem', but this seems to report a problem with yelp.

This bug is regarding gnome-utils, and executable 'baobab'

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report. The issue is an upstream one and it would be nice if somebody having it could send the bug the to the people writting the software (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME)

[Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog)]

Baobab scans whatever partition is checked into Edit->Preferences window. You can uncheck the partitions you don't want to scan.

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

Fabio Marzocca skrev:
> Baobab scans whatever partition is checked into Edit->Preferences
> window. You can uncheck the partitions you don't want to scan.
>

No, I can't. AFS is mounted on /afs, but when i go to preferences, I can
 only check/uncheck the mounted physical volumes.
I want to be able to scan my partition, but when Scan is enabled for /,
baobab also scans /afs, which it shouldn't do.

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[Martin Mai (mrkanister-deactivatedaccount-deactivatedaccount)]

As Sebastien already pointed out: This needs to be sent upstream by someone having the issue. Please read the instructions at [1] on how to do that. Thanks.

[1]: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Upstream/GNOME

[Chelmite (steve-kelem)]

This may be partially an upstream issue (whatever that means), but it's partially a baobab usability issue.

There is no way to specify that certain directories, i.e., mount points, should be ignored.

It is normal for me to have my company's servers mounted. It's (a) slow (b) way too much network traffic, and (c) irrelevant, as I can't and don't need to muck with the directories on the server.

The problem is that it takes over an hour to scan the nfs-mounted drives.

The easy workaround is for me to specify in baobab that I don't want to look in /proc, /mnt, /media, or other system directories that I won't and shouldn't alter.

[Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog)]

@Chelmite--> you can check/uncheck mount points to scan in Edit->Preferences

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

@Fabio: do you see the /afs mount in Edit->Preferences? As i said on 2009-10-08, I can't, and I'm using the default install for Karmic.

I'll try to send a report upstream.

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

Created a bug report upstream:

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=611572

[Fabio Marzocca (thesaltydog)]

@Herder -> to detect mount points baobab uses libgtop. If libgtop doesn't report an AFS mount, maybe we should move this bug on that package.

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

Yes, thats sound reasonable.
Should I do that right away, or do we need some further investigation by someone?

[Niklas Herder (herder)]

Changed to libgtop in upstream bug report.