[disks-admin] Free space size line is incorrect.

Ooops, a line got messed up http://img156.imageshack.us/my.php?image=screenshotdisksmanagerxf5.png
This is the screenshot

The number that's reported in the screenshot has nothing to do with the actual freespace on the partition. You probably guessed that, but you mentioned that the number reported (175921... GiB) is 780,000 times your drive. What I'm getting at is that the number, 17592186044416 is actually the highest (Gigabyte) number representable in decimal form by a 64 bit unsigned integer. (Multiply it by 1024 and 1024 again to see a number that's the same as 2^64).

I'm currently at university in the computer center (with not much time currently) so I can't recreate the scenario on any PCs here, nor do I have my laptop (loaded with Ubuntu) on it, but I'm guessing it may be to do with the program (disks) having problems reading the size of the free space partition.

Is the hard drive in question anything special? Like SCSI? or SATA?

Since the gnome partitioner does not report a free space at that position im
guessing that disks-admin is actually displaying a negativ free space using
a unsigned integer, but since there can't possibly be a negativ number of
free bytes on a harddrive i would say its a bug, and if nothing else it
affects the useability of the software.

On 10/25/06, James Love <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> The number that's reported in the screenshot has nothing to do with the
> actual freespace on the partition. You probably guessed that, but you
> mentioned that the number reported (175921... GiB) is 780,000 times your
> drive. What I'm getting at is that the number, 17592186044416 is
> actually the highest (Gigabyte) number representable in decimal form by
> a 64 bit unsigned integer. (Multiply it by 1024 and 1024 again to see a
> number that's the same as 2^64).
>
> I'm currently at university in the computer center (with not much time
> currently) so I can't recreate the scenario on any PCs here, nor do I
> have my laptop (loaded with Ubuntu) on it, but I'm guessing it may be to
> do with the program (disks) having problems reading the size of the free
> space partition.
>
> Is the hard drive in question anything special? Like SCSI? or SATA?
>
> --
> [disks-admin] Free space size line is incorrect.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/68172
>

Are you using the version that came with Dapper? (2.14.0), as the latest version is 2.15.5. If the bug is reproducable on that version then the bug can be floated upstream to Gnome.

James, g-s-t and edgy have dropped that tools, it was bugged and need to be rewritten using hal, so that bug is a dapper one (and probably not likely to be worked soon)

It was the version that came with the dapper drake live cd

On 10/26/06, James Love <email address hidden> wrote:
>
> Are you using the version that came with Dapper? (2.14.0), as the latest
> version is 2.15.5. If the bug is reproducable on that version then the
> bug can be floated upstream to Gnome.
>
> --
> [disks-admin] Free space size line is incorrect.
> https://launchpad.net/bugs/68172
>

Upstream has abandoned g-s-t:
Mass closing of remaining disks-admin and boot-admin bugs, sorry for the spam.
Both tools are bitrotting, and no development is likely to happen on them.

Marking as invalid, as disks-admin was removed from gnome-system-tools in ubuntu a long time ago.