Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Flavio Cappelli <flavio.cappelli@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks
Date: Sat, 06 Jan 2018 11:52:42
Message-Id: 4340276a-e89b-f2cb-dc63-fa7dcb332f2c@ymail.com
1 >> ...
2 >>
3 >> I tried with three different USB drives and the behavior is the same:
4 >>
5 >> - 4GB flash drive on USB2 interface, vfat formatted, 3.3GB free
6 >> - 128GB flash drive on USB3 interface, exfat formatted, 107GB free
7 >> - 500GB external HDD on USB2 interface, ext4 formatted, 468GB free
8 >>
9 >> The device notifier always shows 1.2GB of free space and I cannot
10 >> copy big files with dolphin to the USB disk.
11 >
12 > I bet it's to do with the FAT / VFAT formatting.
13 >
14 > If you don't get any more helpful replies here, I would take this
15 directly to the KDE lists.
16 >
17 > Stroller
18 >
19
20 Unfortunately it happens also with the ext4 filesystem (see the last
21 item in the above list).
22
23 Ok, thanks for the suggestion.
24
25 Flavio