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Idea #1923: Graphical display of disk space available on each partition

Written by grimko the 29 Feb 08 at 23:05. Related project: Nautilus. Status: New
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When displaying the partitions inside a file explorer such as Nautilus, it would be interesting to see the equivalent of the "df -h" data, that is to say the disk space available on each partition.
The way it is displayed on Vista, with a completion bar, and a different color if it gets close to full state would also be very handy.
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Written by grimko the 29 Feb 08 at 23:05.
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Greyor wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:08
Have you tried Applications->Accessories->Disk Usage Analyzer? It does just about what you're referring to.

Alan Pope (Ubuntu developer) wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:22
I have a feeling this is implemented in 8.10. I have definitely seen a pie chart when choosing properties of a disk somewhere recently.

Techwiz wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:25
Yes, but optional, I might get tired of it after awhile...

grimko wrote on the 29 Feb 08 at 23:29
Greyor.
Have you tried Disk Usage Analyzer :D ?
It's slow, because it counts data available on each folder, recursively.

The use case I describe is really about having an equivalent to the df command, instantaneously displaying the available disk space on the partition (which is very much more usefull in my opinion), not the space used in detail.

codeflow wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 01:27
I realy like FileLight...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filelight

grimko wrote on the 1 Mar 08 at 16:40
Yes but Filelight, as I understand it, is exactly the same as Disk Usage Analyzer on Gnome.
Don't you think the partition available/used space is a great missing feature ?

solid_liq wrote on the 2 Mar 08 at 00:22
In the shell, have you tried discus?

zdenik wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 07:21
The System Monitor has a nice simple graphical representation of all file systems and their usage.

System->Administration->SystemMonitor ("File Systems" tab)

grimko wrote on the 4 Mar 08 at 16:11
zdenik, this is exactly it.
I thought it would be great if implemented in Nautilus, for example as a view, or only on the "computer:///" part.

hugoheden wrote on the 15 Nov 08 at 12:35
Yes, excellent idea.

cudjoe wrote on the 9 Jan 09 at 14:10
There used to a gdf :
http://www.trilug.org/~chilcote/Perl/gdf-desc.html
(quite ugly now)

I suggest you the very nice Gnome Media Applet :
http://live.gnome.org/media-applet
It displays some filled bars.

Unfortunately hacking Nautilus is not an easy task, the Gnome development is quite hard to setup. That's why it's sometimes easier and a lot quicker to develop a small third-party applet.


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