system-cleaner wants to cleanup /

Bug #271234 reported by Björn Torkelsson
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system-cleaner (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
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Bug Description

Binary package hint: system-cleaner

Running 'system-cleaner find' it lists (among some other things):

removable relatime:/
removable relatime:/var/cache/openafs

It is probably a bad idea to at list / as removable :-)

As /var/cache/openafs is not a standard Ubuntu partition it might be correct to list that as removable.

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: amd64
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 8.10
NonfreeKernelModules: openafs
Package: system-cleaner 1.7-0ubuntu1
PackageArchitecture: all
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/games
 LANG=en_DK.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 LC_NUMERIC=en_US.UTF-8
SourcePackage: system-cleaner
Uname: Linux 2.6.27-3-generic x86_64

Tags: apport-bug
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Björn Torkelsson (torkel) wrote :
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to be removed (liw) wrote :

system-cleaner is being unclear here: the "cruft" is that / (and /var/cache/openafs) aren't mounted with the relatime mount option. It wants to add that option to fstab, not remove the entire filesystems.

I will have to find a better way to express that in the user interface. Thanks for pointing this out.

Changed in system-cleaner:
assignee: nobody → liw
status: New → Confirmed
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Björn Torkelsson (torkel) wrote :

maybe change "removable" to "tweak" or something like that in the cases where you want to change things?

By the way shouldn't system-cleaner also take care of purging packages that are removed but not purged?

to be removed (liw)
Changed in system-cleaner:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
to be removed (liw)
Changed in system-cleaner:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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