Baobab should not scan NFS mounted directories by default
Bug #585314 reported by
Bermuda
This bug affects 18 people
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baobab (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Binary package hint: baobab
Binary: Baobab 2.28.1
Today, Ubuntu "introduced" me to baobab after the free space on my root partition went under ~500MB. I thought nice tool and let it analyze my "filesystem". However, my /home is mounted from an NFS server and contains the home directories of many students and teachers. Thus, I aborted the baobab analyzer after some minutes. Looking for a way to prevent this I checked the preferences - but there I cannot prevent baobab from scanning remote mounted directories.
Proposal:
1. Do not scan remote directories by default (similar to find -xdev ) and include an option in the preferences.
2. Give the user the ability to exclude certain directories
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I have a similar problem. I have a remote windows share mounted inside my home directory. Whether I ask baobab to scan my home or my root filesystem (my /home is part of /, not its own partition), the scan always goes off into the remote windows share.
If I'm asking for a filesystem scan of /, it definitely shouldn't scan remote windows shares (mounted using smbfs).
An option like find's -xdev would be useful, and should be the default.