Settings - About gives wrong disk capacity

Bug #2038728 reported by corrado venturini
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gnome-control-center (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
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Bug Description

I have 3 disks 500GB each but Settings - About says disk capacity is 1 TB instead 1.5 TB

corrado@corrado-n4-mm-1005:~$ sudo parted -l
Model: ATA CT500MX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sda: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 269MB 268MB fat32 msftdata
 2 269MB 8859MB 8590MB linux-swap(v1) swap
 3 8859MB 43.2GB 34.4GB ext4
 4 43.2GB 77.6GB 34.4GB ext4
 5 77.6GB 112GB 34.4GB ext4
 6 112GB 146GB 34.4GB ext4
 7 146GB 500GB 354GB ext4

Model: ATA CT500MX500SSD1 (scsi)
Disk /dev/sdb: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/4096B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 34.4GB 34.4GB ext4
 2 34.4GB 68.7GB 34.4GB ext4
 3 68.7GB 103GB 34.4GB ext4
 4 103GB 137GB 34.4GB ext4
 5 137GB 500GB 363GB ext4

Model: KINGSTON SNV2S500G (nvme)
Disk /dev/nvme0n1: 500GB
Sector size (logical/physical): 512B/512B
Partition Table: gpt
Disk Flags:

Number Start End Size File system Name Flags
 1 1049kB 538MB 537MB fat32 EFI System Partition boot, esp
 2 538MB 34.9GB 34.4GB ext4
 3 34.9GB 69.3GB 34.4GB ext4
 4 69.3GB 104GB 34.4GB ext4
 5 104GB 138GB 34.4GB ext4
 6 138GB 172GB 34.4GB ext4
 7 172GB 500GB 328GB ext4

corrado@corrado-n4-mm-1005:~$

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 23.10
Package: gnome-control-center 1:45.0-1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 6.5.0-7.7-generic 6.5.3
Uname: Linux 6.5.0-7-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.27.0-0ubuntu4
Architecture: amd64
CasperMD5CheckResult: unknown
CloudArchitecture: x86_64
CloudID: none
CloudName: none
CloudPlatform: none
CloudSubPlatform: config
CurrentDesktop: ubuntu:GNOME
Date: Sat Oct 7 19:04:08 2023
InstallationDate: Installed on 2023-10-07 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 23.10 "Mantic Minotaur" - Daily amd64 (20231005)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 SHELL=/bin/bash
 TERM=xterm-256color
 XDG_RUNTIME_DIR=<set>
SourcePackage: gnome-control-center
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

See https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gnome-control-center/-/issues/2632

Which suggests that a bug in this code might be an issue in udisks2 instead of in gnome-control-center

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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :

Attaching output from udisksctl dump

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corrado venturini (corradoventu) wrote :
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in gnome-control-center (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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Ubuntu QA Website (ubuntuqa) wrote :

This bug has been reported on the Ubuntu ISO testing tracker.

A list of all reports related to this bug can be found here:
https://iso.qa.ubuntu.com/qatracker/reports/bugs/2038728

tags: added: iso-testing
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Jeremy Bícha (jbicha) wrote :

I am marking this a duplicate of bug 2038761

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