Ubuntu
nautilus package

Nautilus Properties incorrectly totals sizes of hardlinked files

Bug #18783 reported by Morgan Collett
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Nautilus
Fix Released
Medium
nautilus (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs
Hardy
Fix Released
Medium
Ubuntu Desktop Bugs

Bug Description

I have a baz revision library, and wanted to know how much disk space it is
taking up. I right-clicked on the directory using nautilus and went to
properties. It came up with a total filesize of 40.2 GB. 'du -s' on the other
hand reported about 4 GB. Lots of files in the revision library are hardlinked
together - hence nautilus is naively adding the file sizes together instead of
noting which files occupy the same space.

http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313668: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313668

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Morgan Collett (morgan-ubuntu) wrote :

In hoary by the way...

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Morgan Collett (morgan-ubuntu) wrote :

Created an attachment (id=2939)
Screenshot of nautilus properties vs du output

Here you can see the difference between nautilus's reported filesize vs du.

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Ante Karamatić (ivoks) wrote :

I can confirm this.

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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

I've forwarded your issue upstream: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=313668

Simon Law (sfllaw)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Unconfirmed → Confirmed
Pedro Villavicencio (pedro)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Triaged
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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Sebastien Bacher (seb128) wrote :

the bug has been fixed in the upstream svn

Changed in nautilus:
status: Triaged → Fix Committed
Sebastien Bacher (seb128)
Changed in nautilus:
assignee: seb128 → desktop-bugs
assignee: nobody → desktop-bugs
importance: Undecided → Medium
status: New → Confirmed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Accepted into -proposed, please test and give feedback here

Changed in nautilus:
status: Confirmed → Fix Committed
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Confirming that the new version in -proposed now reports the correct size of a directory which has hardlinks in it.

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Fixed in Intrepid in 2.23.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote :

Copied to hardy-updates.

Changed in nautilus:
status: Fix Committed → Fix Released
Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater)
Changed in nautilus:
importance: Unknown → Medium
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