Ubuntu
filelight package

incorrectly shows the apparent size of sparse files.

Bug #65811 reported by Paul Sladen
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KDE Utilities
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Unknown
filelight (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Wishlist
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Bug Description

Filelight is a KDE application to display disk space usage as a pie-chart.

Filelight incorrectly shows the percentage space that a file is occupying. Sparse files, such as core-dumps are shown by the size of their extents (eg. 641MB) instead of their disk-usage (~101MB).

Ideally Filelight should use actual disk-usage when calculating the pie percentages.

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Matthew Woerly (nattgew) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug and helping to make Ubuntu better. You reported this bug a while ago and there hasn't been any activity in it recently. We were wondering is this still an issue for you? Thanks in advance.

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Jean-Baptiste Lallement (jibel) wrote :

filelight currently shows the value of the field st_size returned by the call to lstat. Just to be sure, what you'd like is the number of blocks in (KB/MB/GB, ...) really occupied on disk by the file (always less than apparent size because of reserved blocks and "holes") ?

What could be done is to add a option to select which fields the user want to see and the format ?

Changed in filelight:
status: New → Confirmed
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in filelight:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
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Peter Lewis (prlewis) wrote :

This is acknowledged upstream: https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=135611

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Maarten Bezemer (veger) wrote :

Thanks for taking the time to report this bug in the upstream bug tracking system this is a tremendous help. Launchpad has the ability to watch lots of upstream bug trackers and this can be done by following the procedure documented at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Bugs/Watches. I've added the bug watch for this bug report.

This bug should have been fixed years ago, it would help us a lot if you could test it on a currently supported Ubuntu version. Precise seem to include a (very) new version of this package. When you test it and it is still an issue, kindly upload the updated logs by running apport-collect 65811 and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Changed in filelight (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Incomplete
Harald Sitter (apachelogger)
Changed in filelight (Ubuntu):
status: Incomplete → Fix Released
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