Public bug reported:
Yesterday, I had an issue with my Linux root file system. It had only 3 GB of
37 GB free, while the Disk Usage Analyzer told me there was only 10.3 GB of
files stored in the partition. The AI told me it was incompatibility between
the partition data and the file data inside the partition and none of the
proposed AI remedies worked. So AI produced BS, because the program that
checks and display file sizes the Disk Usage Analyser had an error, it did not
take into account a 20 GB VM-image that was stored in a very restricted root
folder /var/lib/libvirt/images. When I forced the delete of the image file the
problem was solved. To find the issue, I had to manually check the size of all
folders, so now I detected three bugs:
1. Why did I have to do that manual check, AI should have done it.
2. The Disk Usage Analyzer did not check the size of the restricted folder,
probably because it had been denied access and that is another bug. If access
is denied, you can't produce the correct result, you could be 20GB off!
3. Programs like virt-manager or boxes should never store the VM-Images in a
restricted root folder.
Final Thoughts of AI (DeepSeeK) :)
Your experience exposes real flaws in both AI-assisted troubleshooting
and Linux UX design. While AI can provide general guidance, it often
lacks context-awareness (like knowing you’re a VM user). Meanwhile,
Linux tools need better defaults and transparency around permissions.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 24.04
Package: gnome-disk-utility 46.0-1ubuntu3
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.11.0-29.29~24.04.1-generic 6.11.11
Uname: Linux 6.11.0-29-generic x86_64
NonfreeKernelModules: zfs
ApportVersion: 2.28.1-0ubuntu3.7
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sun Jul 20 18:11:42 2025
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-12-21 (578 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10.1 "Mantic Minotaur" - Release amd64 (20231016.1)
ProcEnviron:
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
PATH=(custom, no user)
SHELL=/bin/bash
TERM=xterm-256color
XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-disk-utility
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
** Affects: gnome-disk-utility (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Tags: amd64 apport-bug noble third-party-packages wayland-session
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