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[Saikrishna Arcot <saiarcot895@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ah, I think I found a solution. See
http://www.chromium.org/administrators/policy-list-3#DiskCacheSize. If
the value is 0, then the default cache size will be used. Even though
this is for the policy, I'm guessing this might apply to the command
line flag as well.

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Title:
  chromium-browser ignores CHROMIUM_FLAGS

Status in “chromium-browser” package in Ubuntu:
  New

Bug description:
  I have this,

  0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$grep FLAG /etc/chromium-browser/default 
  #CHROMIUM_FLAGS=""
  CHROMIUM_FLAGS="--disk-cache-size=0"
  0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$

  And yet chromium uses disk cache in .cache/chromium/Default/Cache

  
  Here http://www.chromium.org/developers/how-tos/run-chromium-with-flags
  it says that

  Current switches may be found at http://peter.sh/examples/?/chromium-switches.html
  redirects to http://peter.sh/experiments/chromium-command-line-switches/
  which says
  --disk-cache-size ⊗ 	Forces the maximum disk space to be used by the disk cache, in bytes. ↪

  and chromium seems to read the file, if not respect the option:
  0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$strace -e open chromium-browser 2>&1 |grep /etc/chromium-browser/default
  open("/etc/chromium-browser/default", O_RDONLY) = 3
  0 jan@muizenberg:/var/autofs/misc/home/jan$

  Use case: university computer lab with disk quotas on a nfs home
  server, running a campus wide proxy, wishes to disable chromium cache
  on all university desktops.

  Attempted workaround, was to edit /usr/share/applications/chromium-
  browser after each upgrade, point Exec= lines in the chromium-
  browser.desktop file at our own /usr/local/bin/chromium-browser-
  wrapper.sh, which calls /usr/bin/chromium-browser --disk-cache-size=0
  "$@" which also seems NOT to work.

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