Storage reports inaccurate information

Thank you for your bug report. We moslty use the standard APIs to get those infos, the partition scheme is a bit complex on touch though. Could you add a screenshot of the space reported and the output of "mount" "df -h" to the bug?

On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 06:18:01PM -0000, Michael Hall wrote:
> Public bug reported:
>
> The Storage screen appears to show all space on the drive, but in
> reality it's not all available to the user. When /home/ runs out of
> space, the Storage screen still reports Free space, even though it's on
> a partition the user can't use for files.

Where are new applications installed to? How should the space available
to be taken up by log files in /var/log be reported?

Free space currently lists all of the free space on every partition.

We'll need to decide if changing this is desirable, and if it is then
have a design to report the different kinds of free space ("available to
the system" and "available to the user").

 assignee mpt

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Iain's questions are salient ones; I can't really suggest a design here without answers to them.

For example, if apps are installed in the system area, we might show free space in /home/ as "Free space" and free space anywhere else as "Free for new apps".

If apps are installed in /home/, we might call that space "Free space", and the free space elsewhere just "Reserved" or something like that.

Please reassign back to me when there are answers.

Apps are installed in /home (except preinstalled apps which are in /opt/)

This bug was fixed in the package ubuntu-system-settings - 0.3+14.10.20140926-0ubuntu1

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ubuntu-system-settings (0.3+14.10.20140926-0ubuntu1) utopic; urgency=low

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