Usage/freespace of "filesystem" neglects concept of per partion usage more important (esp. /home)

Bug #404750 reported by Andrew Somerville
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
baobab (Ubuntu)
Invalid
Undecided
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://ftp.oleane.net jaunty/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

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://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/baobab/+bug/86018

But either it has regressed or has not really relieved the issue.

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Andrew Somerville (andy-somerville) wrote :
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Amir (amirzod) wrote :

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".

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

does this ever occur in precise or later?

Changed in baobab (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)
status: New → Incomplete
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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

We'd like to figure out what's causing this bug for you, but we haven't heard back from you in a while. Could you please provide the requested information? Thanks!

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Rolf Leggewie (r0lf) wrote :

We are closing this bug report because it lacks the information we need to investigate the problem, as described in the previous comments. Please reopen it if you can give us the missing information, and don't hesitate to submit bug reports in the future. To reopen the bug report you can click on the current status, under the Status column, and change the Status back to "New". Thanks again!

Changed in baobab (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Invalid
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