[Bug 35404] Disk space notification notifies when a partition is full which is mounted as a subdirectory of /home

[Lakin Wecker]

Public bug reported:
https://launchpad.net/malone/bugs/35404

Affects: gnome-volume-manager (Ubuntu)
       Severity: Normal
       Priority: (none set)
         Status: Unconfirmed

Description:
I have a partition which is mounted as /home/data and is world readable/writable.  It's frequently close to being full, with only a few hundred megabytes of storage free, because I store some large data sets there for processing.   My actual home directory is /home/lakin and has 12G available ...
Relavent lines from df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda9              19G  5.8G   12G  34% /
/dev/hda5              51G   48G  419M 100% /home/data


However, I get a notification everytime I login telling me:
"Low Disk Space

99% of the disk space on /home (/home/data) is in use"

This data directory is not used as a home partition for any user, and
thereby it being full has no adverse affects on running my gnome
desktop.  Shouldn't the gnome-volume-manager do some basic checking to
ensure that the partition isn't critical to the function of the computer
before showing this warning message?