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Miscalculates folder size [$50]

Bug #1200787 reported by 982c80311320c1b on 2013-07-12

This bug affects 9 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	Files	Fix Released	Medium	meese	Files 0.2

Bug Description

I selected everything in my root folder, which added up to 140.7 Terabyte. The progress bar shows the correct value.

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lp:~meese/pantheon-files/fix-1200787

Merged into lp:~elementary-apps/pantheon-files/trunk at revision 1616

Danielle Foré: Approve (ux) on 2014-10-17

Jeremy Wootten: Approve on 2014-10-16

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982c80311320c1b (alexander-wilms) wrote on 2013-07-12:

Screenshot Edit (130.9 KiB, image/png)

Cameron Norman (cameronnemo) on 2013-07-13

Changed in pantheon-files:
status:	New → Confirmed

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2013-07-13

Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone:	none → 0.3-beta1
importance:	Undecided → Medium

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José M. Benítez (jmiguelbenitez) wrote on 2014-01-29:

I am not able to reproduce this bug. How did it happen? Maybe because the external drive was unmounted?

Is it still happening to anyone?

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José M. Benítez (jmiguelbenitez) wrote on 2014-02-01:

Ok, I was able to reproduce the bug in the end. I tried with an external hard drive and everything went fine (see the previous comment). However, the size goes crazy when I plug my phone.

Bad news is "du" calculates the same (wrong) amount. Or this is good news, I don't know.

I'll try to search for more information.

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2014-02-01

Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee:	nobody → elementary UX Team (elementary-design)

Cody Garver (codygarver) on 2014-04-09

Changed in pantheon-files:
milestone:	isis-beta1 → isis-beta2

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Paweł Kowalik (pkowalik) wrote on 2014-04-21:

ss.png Edit (93.5 KiB, image/png)

I'm getting exactly the same result, while using only one 500 GB hard disk with separate / and /home partitions.

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-08-31:

Is there a reason this is assigned to UX team? Sounds like a purely technical problem

Changed in pantheon-files:
assignee:	elementary UX Team (elementary-design) → nobody

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-09-27:

https://www.bountysource.com/transactions/25114?receipt=1

summary:

- Miscalculates folder size
+ Miscalculates folder size [$50]

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) wrote on 2014-09-27:

oops wrong link https://www.bountysource.com/issues/967909-miscalculates-folder-size

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Lewis Goddard (lewisgoddard) wrote on 2014-09-27:

Test:
Try running `ls -l /proc/kcore`
For me, the last line will report that that "file" is 140737486266368 bytes in size.
In actual fact is it almost nothing, and is used to view into the kernel.

Summary:
Sparse files list the size in the header, and some are silly.
This makes `du`, while more efficient because of the header checking,
vulnerable to repeating this silliness as fact.

References:
http://superuser.com/questions/349715/why-are-the-proc-and-sys-folders-more-than-100-tb-in-size
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sparse_file