Hi all, in bug #433462 there is a request to add free space information in reportbug standard info appended to bug report.
It's a valid request, that I want to fulfill, but there are some aspects I'd like to discuss. First of all, with your package maintainers hat on, what kind of information you'd like? only the value of free MB in the disk? total size, free size? also percentage? I think that from a bug report point-of-view, only the free megabytes value would do. That said, what to report? Simply taking the output of "df -h" and attaching to reportbug template it's not what I like: there could be more partitions/disks not interesting for the report/system in that output, and I don't want to include them. So I thought: "Easy, just take the information for / and add them". Well, not really. There are situation where /usr, /var, /etc and/or many more directories are in separate partitions, and it might be interesting to include those information too (if not with /). But, how further should I go? Just take / and /usr, /var, /etc if-not-in-/ and add them? what if /var has subdirs like /var/log /var/tmp /var/lib splitted in different partition? what if /usr has /usr/bin and /usr/share on a NFS filer? So, just to recap: - what free space information you'd like? (I'd propose only the count of free MB) - what directory to show in the report? (I'd propose /, /var, /usr, /etc if the latter 3 not in / but not going recursively under them) Thanks for your attention, Sandro PS: please keep the bug in CC, so that there will he history of the discussion there too. -- Sandro Tosi (aka morph, morpheus, matrixhasu) My website: http://matrixhasu.altervista.org/ Me at Debian: http://wiki.debian.org/SandroTosi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/8b2d7b4d1003151612y114f8363u2ac3702fab439...@mail.gmail.com
