Disk capacity in "about" section of the gnome-control-panel is missing external (boot) drive

[Luis Plaza]

 Disk capacity in "about" section of the gnome-control-panel always shows internal computer disk space available but not the disk where Ubuntu is executed.

I am executing Ubuntu from and external drive.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 20.04
Package: gnome-control-center 1:3.36.4-0ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 5.4.0-58.64-generic 5.4.73
Uname: Linux 5.4.0-58-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.11-0ubuntu27.14
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: skip
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Wed Dec 16 06:35:52 2020
InstallationDate: Installed on 2020-10-26 (50 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS "Focal Fossa" - Release amd64 (20200731)
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

It seems to be the sum of all disk capacities. If that's not what you see then please:

1. Tell us how much it reports for you.

2. Run:

   lsblk > blk.txt

   and attach the resulting text file here.

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

See also bug 1864543.

[Luis Plaza (luisplaza)]

Hi Daniel!

hope you are fine. Thank you for the fast response!

Here are my two disks. The external drive from where I boot with Ubuntu is sda, and the internal drive nvme0n1 which has Windows10. gnome-control-center shows 238,5G as my disk space and not 897,8G

sda 8:0 0 1,8T 0 disk
├─sda1 8:1 0 512M 0 part /boot/efi
├─sda2 8:2 0 1K 0 part
├─sda5 8:5 0 897,8G 0 part /
└─sda6 8:6 0 964,8G 0 part /trabajo
sr0 11:0 1 1024M 0 rom
nvme0n1 259:0 0 238,5G 0 disk
├─nvme0n1p1 259:1 0 529M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p2 259:2 0 100M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p3 259:3 0 16M 0 part
├─nvme0n1p4 259:4 0 122G 0 part
├─nvme0n1p5 259:5 0 636M 0 part
└─nvme0n1p6 259:6 0 115,3G 0 part

sudo parted -l

Modelo: LaCie Mobile Drive (scsi)
Disco /dev/sda: 2000GB
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512B/4096B
Tabla de particiones: msdos
Indicadores de disco:

Numero Inicio Fin Tamaño Tipo Sistema de archivos Banderas
 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB primary fat32 esp
 2 539MB 2000GB 2000GB extended
 5 539MB 964GB 964GB logical ext4 arranque
 6 964GB 2000GB 1036GB logical ntfs

Modelo: PC SN520 NVMe WDC 256GB (nvme)
Disco /dev/nvme0n1: 256GB
Tamaño de sector (lógico/físico): 512B/512B
Tabla de particiones: gpt
Indicadores de disco:

Numero Inicio Fin Tamaño Sistema de archivos Nombre Banderas
 1 1049kB 556MB 555MB ntfs Basic data partition oculta, diag
 2 556MB 661MB 105MB fat32 EFI system partition arranque, esp
 3 661MB 677MB 16,8MB Microsoft reserved partition msftres
 4 677MB 132GB 131GB ntfs Basic data partition msftdata
 6 132GB 255GB 124GB fat32 DATOS msftdata
 5 255GB 256GB 667MB ntfs oculta, diag

Hope this helps )

Luis

[Daniel van Vugt (vanvugt)]

Thanks. I'm not sure the developers intend to include external drives in that sum, and so I'm not sure if this is a bug...

Please open a new issue upstream:

  https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/new

and then tell us the new issue ID.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for gnome-control-center (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]