Re: Peculiar error in GWorkspace

[Enrico Sersale]

On Mon, 7 Jan 2002, Chris B. Vetter wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It doesn't look like it's actually an error in GWorkspace, but there is
> a very peculiar error in File Viewer, with respect to available disk space:
>
> [...]
>  :0> df -h
>  Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on   GWorkspace
>  /dev/da0s1a   2.0G    82M   1.7G     4%    /                1.72G
>  /dev/da1s1b   2.0G     0K   2.0G     0%    swap
>  /dev/da1s1b   496M   3.0K   456M     0%    /tmp             0.45G
>  /dev/da2s1e   3.9G    31M   3.6G     1%    /var             3.57G
>  /dev/da3s1e   3.9G   577M   3.0G    16%    /usr             3.04G
>  /dev/da4s1e   8.3G   473M   7.2G     6%    /usr/local       3.18G huh?
>  /dev/da5s1e   8.3G   4.3G   3.3G    56%    /usr/ports       3.35G
>  /dev/da6s1e   8.3G   226M   7.4G     3%    /opt             3.40G huh?
>  /dev/da7s1e    33G   8.2G    22G    27%    /home            2.08G huh?
>  :0>
> [...]
>
> As you can see, it only affects drive da4, da6 and da7, as if larger
> drives cannot be handled correctly, if used and available space differ
> too much, since GWorkspace shows space on disk da5 as supposed to.
>
> Looking at the source in GWorkspace/Viewers/ViewersWin.m,
>  -updateInfoString calls [NSFileManager fileSystemAttributesAtPath:],
> which in turn calls GetDiskFreeSpace() - but where the heck is it?
>
> A grep(1) only returns one call in base/Source/NSFileManager.m ...

Actually I can't reproduce this because I've not a big empty partition...
Try to take a look also at fileSizeDescription(), in Functions.m.