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  1. Bug #133567
  2. Comment #45

Comment 45 for bug 133567

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Martin Pitt (pitti) wrote : Re: [Bug 133567] Re: nautilus hangs on accessing vfat drives - statfs() blocks for a long time

Hi,

wusch [2007-10-04 19:33 -0000]:
> It now hangs on right click -> properties.

That is known. However, I feel that it is better for the dialog to
take a minute to appear and display correct results than to break this
as well. After a few minutes, the dialog does not hang any more
anyway. OTOH the 'free space' message is put into the browser dialog
immediately, there is no chance for delaying this.

> And it does not show the free space left on the drive, so it is not
> really a good solution I think.

It is not intended to be a solution. But since there is no way to fix
the Gutsy kernel in time, we have to live with this hack, I'm afraid.