SUMMARY STEPS TO REPRODUCE 1. Start Filelight 2. Add a directory from the "Do not scan folders" list in the configuration 3. Start a scan OBSERVED RESULT Excluded directory is being scanned and shown in the result EXPECTED RESULT Excluded directory should not be scanned or included in the result SOFTWARE/OS VERSIONS Linux: Arch Linux Kernel: 6.4.12-arch1-1 KDE Plasma Version: 5.27.7 KDE Frameworks Version: 5.109.0 Qt Version: 5.15.10 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION This bug also includes default folders removed from the exclusion list, not being scanned and the "Scan across file system boundaries" option being ignored.
Can reproduce. I added /home to the exclusion lists, started a scan of /, and it still scanned /home.
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While this bug is being fixed, please recommend an alternative utility that CAN, as opposed to CANNOT, help me find disk space hogs on a specific partition. Not having this functionality hurts me a lot: I have the root partition 95% filled and Filelight's report is useless without being able to limit the scan to the partition in question.
Can reproduce
Seems to be caused by this commit: https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight/-/commit/659a3e487cd1d1e5d573892d938233aa4f52202a
(In reply to fanzhuyifan from comment #5) > Seems to be caused by this commit: > https://invent.kde.org/utilities/filelight/-/commit/ > 659a3e487cd1d1e5d573892d938233aa4f52202a I can understand how that commit breaks manual exclusions, but how does it break the filesystem boundary option?
If you expand the code above you'll find that scanning across boundaries is implemented as part of the ignore set.
(In reply to Szczepan Hołyszewski from comment #3) > While this bug is being fixed, please recommend an alternative utility For those who still did not get the fix like me: I use also Baobab and K4dirstat currently
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