> The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home partition?
gnome-terminal stores the scrollback content in a temporary file, opened at the standard location which is /tmp by default, overridable with the standard TMPDIR environment variable. > May be "unlimited" should be understood as "unlimited within reasonable limits"? g-t tries to do what you ask from this. If you ask this to remember everything, it tries to store everything. What do you mean by "reasonable limits"? E.g. 1 million lines? Feel free to set this in gnome-terminal's preferences :) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1320157 Title: user space gnome-terminal overflows / file system To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gnome-terminal/+bug/1320157/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs