Public bug reported: I have two partitions on my system:
$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 23G 12G 11G 52% / /dev/sda6 98G 67G 27G 72% /home When I run a user application (on /home) which produces lots of debugging output to the terminal, it quickly (less than a day) overflows the root file system /. I think I figured the reason for that: I selected the "unlimited" option for scrolling back in the gnome terminal. The question is this: why does it overflow the / rather than the /home partition? May be "unlimited" should be understood as "unlimited within reasonable limits"? I earlier reported it as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/e2fsprogs/+bug/1319667 (Of course I am not going to use this in a production application. It popped up in a stress testing, where I modeled events which happen usually once or twice a minute at accelerated speed, of thousands of times per second) 1) $ lsb_release -rd Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Release: 14.04 2) # apt-cache policy gnome-terminal gnome-terminal: Installed: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Candidate: 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 Version table: *** 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 0 500 http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 3) I expected it to chop off the terminal output when it grew unreasonably big, or at least not to overflow the / partition, staying in /home instead. 4) it overflew the / partition instead ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: gnome-terminal 3.6.2-0ubuntu1 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.13.0-24.47-generic 3.13.9 Uname: Linux 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.14.1-0ubuntu3 Architecture: amd64 Date: Fri May 16 11:18:01 2014 InstallationDate: Installed on 2014-02-10 (94 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 13.10 "Saucy Salamander" - Release amd64 (20131016.1) SourcePackage: gnome-terminal UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to trusty on 2014-04-22 (24 days ago) ** Affects: gnome-terminal (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: amd64 apport-bug trusty -- 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
