Root partition reported size in Dolphin - is wrong

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After selecting ‘properties’ for my workstation 80GIB root partition & asking it to be calculated, it comes back as128.1TiB.
I know that is not right.
Anyone else getting high values for root partition size in Dolphin properties?

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I remember this was discussed already some time ago. The culprit is /proc which is a pseudo file system. Dolphin shouldn’t use/read it for the calculation but does. Simply google “dolphin wrong size” and you will see that this is a common and known issue.

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Not happening here
15.6 or TW

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Easily reproducible. From the places panel in Dolphin right click a partition and hit Calculate.

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On this system, asking Dolphin to calculate the size of the Root partition results in Dolphin walking through all the drives on this system – which is why I prefer to use KDiskFree for this information.

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Thanks folks.
Just another of the KDE mishaps?
There are parts of KDE I’d like to be gone, but afraid removing things will screw other things up.

Ya’ll have a good New Year!

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Yea. However, keep in mind it seems the Calculate bug is only for /. The other immediately visible / size options are correct.

For example, in Dophin’s left panel, there’s a visual (horizontal) graph showing used space and total size. Also, if you right click on the / entry and select Properties, there is a field at the bottom (General tab) labeled “Free Space”, which is correct. They both match my “df -h” output.

Personally, I never use Dolphin to calculate consumed space on a partition or sub-directory tree. I use “df -h” and “du -h”.

If I need to quickly find out “where is space being consumed”, I used a graphical tool such as Filelight.

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I’ve dropped a Dolphin Brainstorm topic into the KDE Discuss Forums – “Dolphin - Places - System Root Folder (/) Properties - Calculate processes more than the Root Partition”

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The KDE Bug Report 497011 is dealing with this issue: <Dolphin incorrectly calculates the total size of the files under / (the filesystem root directory)>

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@dcurtisfra Thanks for the extra effort.

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@Bill_L:

It’s no real effort and, it’s rather nice to occasionally discover an unexpected issue with an application.

  • Before I retired, I was a software tester … :smiling_imp:
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