OK, debugging this more myself, I have determined that "xdiskusage
" executes the du program with the -x option, which is
documented to "skip directories on different file systems". The /media
and /snap directories on my system contain subdirectories that are
apparently mounted as different file s
It is definitely not most directories that cause this behavior -- only a
few. Another example I have found is /mnt
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Title:
xdiskusage not showin
Ugh, sorry. Scratch my previous comment about the /mnt directory
exhibiting this behavior -- I have not observed that. I have observed
this difference in behavior between du and xdiskusage with the /media
directory, though. And those are the only two top-level directories on
my Ubuntu 18.04.3 sy
Public bug reported:
Using this command shows lots of disk space used in the /snap directory,
and subdirectories:
$ du /snap | xdiskusage
Using this command shows nearly 0 disk space (only 4 KiB):
$ xdiskusage /snap
This is not unique to the /snap directory -- it occurs for most
directories, m
I saw the issue on both Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04 with kernel versions
4.15.0-33-generic and 4.15.0-34-generic. The problem is not there for
the latest released kernel version 4.15.0-36-generic.
I plan to continue testing for several more kernel releases for Ubuntu
16.04 and 18.04 for a while, to se
I have Ubuntu 16.04.5 with kernel 4.15.0-33-generic and the bug is
there.
I tried using ukuu to install several other "nearby" versions of the
Linux kernel, and did not see the problem with any of them. A list of
results at the end of this page:
https://github.com/jafingerhut/p4-guide/tree/master
