GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 148881
Disk sensor returns wrong values
Last modified: 2004-12-22 21:47:04 UTC
The Disk sensor does not return the proper values for partition size or amount of space used: For example, /dev/hda1 is mounted at /. According to df, here is the used/free info for /dev/hda1: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/hda1 5662700 4972504 690196 88% / But the Disk sensor says that it is 87% free and cites: 607.60M/691.25M. That partition is much larger than that. For /root, df says: /dev/hdb1 39516244 35083196 2425728 94% /root But diskinfo says: 88% free: 4.18G/4.71G. That is a 40GB drive. I think this is due to the fact that the Disk sensor assumes a partition block size which not all users have.
*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 141493 ***