check disk space of $HOME, not /home
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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apport (Ubuntu) |
Fix Released
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Low
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Martin Pitt |
Bug Description
Binary package hint: apport
/usr/share/
$ LANG=C df -h /home /home/ur
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
automount(pid4742) 0 0 0 - /home
/people/ur 184G 167G 7.4G 96% /home/ur
Other users may have separate partitions for every user mounted statically.
I would suggest to check the home directory of the user who created the crash report instead.
The check of / is questionable as well and the resulting hint "Your system partition has less than 10 MB of free space available, which leads to a lot of problems." may be misleading since few programs will ever write to /. May I suggest checking some partitions like /var and /tmp instead? Or to check all partitions that are real filesystems and just issue a warning instead of denying to send a bug report? Locking out all users not running a default installation is an option, but to me it doesn't seem to be the best.
The check for / is a mitigation to catch failed package upgrades which resulted in package unpack errors due to lack of disk space.
/home -> $HOME makes sense, though, I'll fix that. Thanks!