On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Sandro Tosi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
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