[Thunar-dev] Minor things part $PREVIOUS++

Harold Aling h.aling at home.nl
Fri Mar 10 00:00:21 CET 2006


Benedikt Meurer wrote:
>> Oops, sorry... Since Thunar is able to report free space on a mount, i
>> thought it shouldn't be that difficult to implement a 'cancel/continue
>> anyway' dialog...
>>     
>
> Unix file systems are complex. The free space reported by Thunar should
> be considered as a rough measurement. A simple example: You can easily
> fill up 4MB with thousand 1B files on a file system with a block size of
> 4KB (not taking into account the space required for the thousand
> inodes). This depends heavily on the operating system and the file
> system (i.e. some modern file systems will probably place the 1B data
> into the inode).
>
> Benedikt
>
>   
Doesn't matter... The current implementation is ok too... (although I 
didn't test the given options)

Another "may-or-may-not be ridiculous idea" : rename/label removable media.

My recently formatted SDA shows as sda1 in Thunar...

-H-
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