[gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks

[gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks

[Flavio Cappelli]

Hi,

I have the KDE plasma device notifier that shows always 1.2GB of free
space on all USB disks (HDD or flash drives). Such issue does not happen
on internals SATA HDD / SDD. This issue also prevents me to copy files
bigger then 1.2GB to any mounted USB disk using dolphin (but I can copy
the same big files using "cp" in konsole, and I can copy files smaller
than 1.2GB with dolphin). I'm sure it did not happen some months ago.


I tried with three different USB drives and the behavior is the same:

ￜ- 4GB flash drive on USB2 interface, vfat formatted, 3.3GB free
ￜ- 128GB flash drive on USB3 interface, exfat formatted, 107GB free
ￜ- 500GB external HDD on USB2 interface, ext4 formatted, 468GB free

The device notifier always shows 1.2GB of free space and I cannot copy
big files with dolphin to the USB disk.


I have kde-plasma 5.11.4 andￜ kde-framework 5.41.0 installed, but the
issue happened also with kde-plasma 5.10.5 and kde-framework 5.40.0.


What can I check to solve it?

Many thanks.


Flavio

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks

[Stroller]

> On 3 Jan 2018, at 17:24, Flavio Cappelli <flavio.cappelli@ymail.com> wrote:
> … 
> 
> I tried with three different USB drives and the behavior is the same:
> 
> ￜ- 4GB flash drive on USB2 interface, vfat formatted, 3.3GB free
> ￜ- 128GB flash drive on USB3 interface, exfat formatted, 107GB free
> ￜ- 500GB external HDD on USB2 interface, ext4 formatted, 468GB free
> 
> The device notifier always shows 1.2GB of free space and I cannot copy
> big files with dolphin to the USB disk.

I bet it's to do with the FAT / VFAT formatting.

If you don't get any more helpful replies here, I would take this directly to the KDE lists.

Stroller

Re: [gentoo-user] Plasma device notifier shows wrong free space on USB disks

[Flavio Cappelli]

>> ...
>>
>> I tried with three different USB drives and the behavior is the same:
>>
>> - 4GB flash drive on USB2 interface, vfat formatted, 3.3GB free
>> - 128GB flash drive on USB3 interface, exfat formatted, 107GB free
>> - 500GB external HDD on USB2 interface, ext4 formatted, 468GB free
>>
>> The device notifier always shows 1.2GB of free space and I cannot
>> copy big files with dolphin to the USB disk.
>
> I bet it's to do with the FAT / VFAT formatting.
>
> If you don't get any more helpful replies here, I would take this
directly to the KDE lists.
>
> Stroller
>

Unfortunately it happens also with the ext4 filesystem (see the last
item in the above list).

Ok, thanks for the suggestion.

Flavio