Bug#679920: baobab totally out of touch with disk usage (according to df)

[Thorbjørn Lindeijer]

On Mon, Jul 2, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Al Grimstad <agrimstad at emailhosting.com> wrote:
> Package: baobab
> Version: 3.4.1-1
> Severity: grave
> Justification: renders package unusable
>
> baobab: / at 100% (df: / at 13%)
> baobab: /var at 2% (df /var at 59%)
>
> etc.

This requires a bit of understanding what baobab is displaying. It's
not displaying how much of a hard drive is being used, but how much
percentage of the _used_ space is in any particular location.

So / will always be at 100%, since all the used space starts there.
/var at 2% means 2% of the space used by all files under / is under
/var. It has nothing to do with however your partitions are set up.

Best regards,
Bjørn