Re: Adding mount usage information to properties page

[Alexander Larsson <alexl redhat com>]

On Wed, 2007-02-21 at 20:39 -0700, Trevor Davenport wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just opened http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=410658 which
> about nautilus not giving any usage details for a mount point, only
> the free space.  I've attached a patch that implements this
> functionality and draws a pie chart representing the usage/free space
> as well as giving the mounts capacity.  This works for all actual
> mounts such as usb drives and any other file system that is actually
> mounted.  It will not work for connected servers such as ssh and smb
> methods.  Currently, gnomevfs only allows you to get he free space and
> no other details about the volume so not much can be done about that
> without extending the methods.  If there was a method that allowed you
> to get the drive capacity as well as the free space then it could be
> made to work for connected servers as well.  On connected servers it
> will simply not display and look exactly like it does currently.  You
> can click on mounted drives that are on the desktop/computer:// and
> get the info.  If they are not mounted not it's again, just like you
> would currently if it wasn't mounted.  This all seems to work well on
> my machine.  I've copied the statvfs/statfs work out of the gnomevfs
> file method for the relevant parts as well as the configure.in.  I
> don't claim to be even remotely good with autoconf/automake so
> something could be wrong in there especially for solaris (or at least
> some versions) since it seems to have statvfs with 4 arguments rather
> then 2.  Basically someone needs to test it on these systems.
> Question and comments please.  I've put up a screenshot on
> http://www.fairpoint.net/~trevord/screenshot-filesystemproperties.png
> which shows what that patch adds.

We're feature and UI frozen atm, so this will have to wait.

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