https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=278451 sh@novell.com changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- AssignedTo|sh@novell.com |lslezak@novell.com ------- Comment #14 from sh@novell.com 2007-05-30 07:51 MST ------- This discussion what partitions to include in that disk space check is ages old. We had thrown out the Windows partitions, but then some users had complained because they had made very creative symlinks to use that partition, too for package installation. I would not recommend that, but you could for example symlink /opt/kde3 to /C/kde3, so that Windows partition would actually be used for package installation. I have no strong feelings towards or against including or excluding partitions from the disk check. But the problem is where to draw the line. A simplistic approach would be to try to check only partitions that are mounted to well-known paths -- paths that are known directories where packages will get installed to. But that might often fail. Whenever users make creative symlinks, for example. You might choose to redirect everything that goes to, say, /usr/share to /work/share. So we have to include mounted Linux file systems at the very least. Include or exclude FAT / VFAT / NTFS file systems? I don't know. Some users get very creative when disk space is running out -- see the first example above. The only safe approach is to include all partitions that are mounted read/write (Read-only partitions are excluded because you can't install anything there anyway, and mounted CD-ROMS or DVD-ROMs are always 100% full, thus would always trigger that warning). Bottom line: This is a lot more complex than you might think. And besides, what partitions to include in that check is the responsibility of the underlying DiskUsage class -> lslzezak. The UI only displays the results. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug, or are watching someone who is.