Usage/freespace of "filesystem" neglects concept of per partion usage more important (esp. /home)
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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baobab (Ubuntu) |
Invalid
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Undecided
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Rolf Leggewie |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: baobab
Baobab 2.26.0
Ubuntu 9.04
gnome-utils:
Installed: 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
Candidate: 2.26.0-0ubuntu1
Version table:
*** 2.26.0-0ubuntu1 0
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
Baobab reports usage on per directory structure basis (and refers to it as "filesystem") and not potentially more important per partition basis.
Use case: John has a separate partition mounted for his home directory and it is almost full, but as baobab composites the usage report from all partitions mounted below /, and so it appears that he has plenty of room available for his photos whereas in reality, the free space is located in another(/the root) partition.
Solution: When a particular folder is selected, an additional usage report for the partition hosting that folder should be shown.
This seems to have been discussed and "fixed" back in 2.19.90-0ubuntu1 in early 2008 here:
https:/
But either it has regressed or has not really relieved the issue.
I agree and had a similar comments. Partition Based or Filesystem scan should separate the mounted filesystems and report them independently. The grand total space available and used from all filesystems (or partitions) are meaningless.
I have 2 filesystems (/ and /home) on one disk and one big filesystem (/data) on a second disk. I don't want them to be rolled up into a single report. If I'm analyzing /home/joe, that home directory usage should be reported as a percentage of "/home" filesystem. Currently it shows /home/joe 100% used no matter what the size of /home filesystem is. Moreover if the "quota" is being used per user then that information should be incorporated as "user maximum allowed space" in addition to what percentage of the main filesystem "/home" is being used by account or user "joe".