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    <title><![CDATA[Disk usage for all mounted disks should be easily findable]]></title>
    <link>http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/item/19641/</link>
    <description><![CDATA[One of the things that I liked from playing with Vista was the way that I could see the disk space available for all disks just going to My Computer. <br /><br />The current equivalent in Jaunty, Nautilus' "Computer" only shows the filesystem and pluggable media. It doesn't (for example) show my mounted /home partition. It would be nice to easily see the disk space available for all mounted disks at a glance.<br /><br /><br />
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<b>[1032 votes] Solution #1: Show all mount points, and free space in "Computer"</b>
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<b>[209 votes] Solution #2: Write a plugin for Nautilus</b>
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<b>[-202 votes] Solution #3: #1, but with the icon itself as the indicator.</b>
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<b>[49 votes] Solution #4: In the sidebar</b>
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<b>[187 votes] Solution #5: By hovering</b>
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<b>[-40 votes] Solution #6: Offer a system monitor launcher</b>
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<b>[-18 votes] Solution #8: show all mount points in computer, show disk usage when selecting folder</b>
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<b>[7 votes] Solution #9: Integrate df with Ubuntu file explorer</b>
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    <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 10:24:52 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Darwin Survivor</title>
  <description><![CDATA[This is an absolutely genius idea. I would like to know where you found the 103GB USB Drive though :p]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 18:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from fizyk</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Yeah, me too ;) Although 'Computer' doesn't show standard mountpoints except for file system '/']]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 07:46:32 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Esshahn</title>
  <description><![CDATA[+1 Great idea.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 10:43:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from egasimus</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The icon itself should be the indicator - like all gray for an empty drive, halfway blue for a drive that's half full, and entirely blue for a full drive. Or whatever colours you choose, anyway.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 11:26:29 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from ingalls</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Great idea! +1<br /><br />I would love a function that does this!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 19:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from emadwilliam</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Could you please tell me what theme were you using in that picture ?<br />btw: Good Idea +1]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2009 20:41:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Penguin Guy</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Brilliant idea!]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2009 11:31:42 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from kazade</title>
  <description><![CDATA[I'm glad people like my idea, being able to see all the physical disks like that is something I miss from Windows...<br /><br />Anyway, I've a few requests about the theme and fonts I'm using :)<br /><br />The theme is Dust, the icon theme is Tango, the fonts are Liberation Sans 10 with slight hinting.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 11:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from cawas</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Also missing on nautilus: a way to see the origin of mount points. When there are many, I have to open Partition Editor in order to know which partition is from what disk, if the names aren't descriptive enough.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:10:37 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from nandayo</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The solution 2 is not a solution : this is different. Baoba is a tool that scan drives, really more heavy than just what propose solution 1.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 12:39:54 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from sayakb</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Image for solution #1 scaled down to thumbnails.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Mon, 11 May 2009 18:23:00 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Pollox</title>
  <description><![CDATA[If you go to the "file systems" tab on "System Monitor", it shows you all the mounted partitions and their usage.  Seems fairly easily findable, although it might be nice to have a similar feature integrated into Nautilus.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 02:42:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from fazillatheef</title>
  <description><![CDATA[i think its there in kde]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 05:29:44 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from vexorian</title>
  <description><![CDATA[System monitor is great at this.<br /><br />I sometimes wonder if it might be a good idea to add it as launcher to the panel by default.<br /><br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 03:35:24 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from bryonak</title>
  <description><![CDATA[It's a very good idea to have a file system overview, but I think GNOME should maintain more of it's own identity instead of copying Windows.<br />Of course doing it the Windows way will be more familiar to recently switched users, while having the System Monitor somewhere in there offers way more information.<br /><br />Implementing both might be another good option...]]></description>
  <pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 14:53:46 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from DarwinAwardWinner</title>
  <description><![CDATA[If you're going to show disk usage of mount points, it makes sense to show that information everywhere. Specifically, with respect to solution number 1, the disk usage should not only be shown in the "computer" view. Whenever a visible icon corresponds to a mount point, that icon should include disk usage info.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 15:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from RainCT</title>
  <description><![CDATA[It has already been mentioned, but: System -> Administration -> System Monitor, "Filesystems" tab.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 21:29:39 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Related idea: http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/idea/7834/]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 14:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from MCEukal</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Great idea, I would like to see it in next Ubuntu version!!!<br />Maybe network shares should be included as well, so it could be a solution like in Vista Explorer -> Workplace (for example)<br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 21:32:15 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from bryonak</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Offtopic: makes me wonder if I should start an idea called "Should we make Ubuntu look and behave exactly like Windows 7?"<br />Given the votes on many topics here, it should be quite popular ;)]]></description>
  <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 11:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from vincenzo_ml</title>
  <description><![CDATA[In the same "wave" of modifications, the name of each device in /dev should be shown. Partitions often have no label, and then umounted volumes are not distinguishable but for their size which is a very poor indicator of which partition am I looking at.<br />]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 11:43:45 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from Endolith</title>
  <description><![CDATA[The /dev mount point is a very poor indicator of which partition you're looking at, too.  It should be made very easy to label partitions, and that should be the main identifier used.<br /><br />When there's no label, it might also be useful to show the format, make and model of the drive, and indicate if it's internal or external.<br /><br />http://reformedmusings.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/hdd-ctl-gui.png<br />http://kepfeltoltes.hu/090327/gsmart_www.kepfeltoltes.hu_.jpg]]></description>
  <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:01:47 +0000</pubDate>
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  <title>Comment from junk</title>
  <description><![CDATA[Go for solution 1! =)<br /><br />As someone mentioned, the values are already there by the System Monitor File systems tab. They just need to be shown.]]></description>
  <pubDate>Thu, 23 Jul 2009 10:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
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