Storage Usage

Fedora, Debian

Storage Usage Management #

Running baobab (GNOME disk analyzer) as root #

tl;dr #

sudo -E baobab

Details #

When launched from the menu, the Disk Analyzer process run under the current user and does not have access to some system dirs. So, it fails to calculate space usage in these directories.

In Fedora37, we can run it simply with:

sudo baobab

And it would work as expected. Howerver, in Debian, when running this way, it baobab crashes with “segmentation fault” when we select the drive/destination.