Disk space unknown?

[Jonasan]

As you can see below: why is my disk space unknown?
If I look in the disk-space utility it says 12,4 GB available, 12,4 GB total.
That’s not likely, I think I have at least a 120 GB harddisk.

Rapport over systeemdetails

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• Datum gegenereerd: 2024-09-18 17:31:56

Hardware Information:

• Hardwaremodel: Framework Laptop 13th Gen Intel Core
• Geheugen: 24,0 GiB
• Processor: 13th Gen Intel® Core™ i5-1340P × 16
• Grafisch: Intel® Graphics (RPL-P)
• Schijfcapaciteit: (null)

Software Information:

• Firmwareversie: 03.04
• Naam besturingssysteem: Fedora Linux 39.20240914.0 (Silverblue)
• Build van besturingssysteem: (null)
• Type besturingssysteem: 64-bit
• GNOME-versie: 45.6
• Venstersysteem: Wayland
• Kernelversie: Linux 6.10.6-100.fc39.x86_64

df -BG
Bestandssysteem 1G-blokken Gebruikt Beschikbaar Geb% Aangekoppeld op
/dev/nvme0n1p3        465G      84G        374G  19% /sysroot
devtmpfs                1G       0G          1G   0% /dev
tmpfs                  12G       1G         12G   1% /dev/shm
efivarfs                1G       1G          1G  67% /sys/firmware/efi/efivars
tmpfs                   5G       1G          5G   1% /run
tmpfs                  12G       1G         12G   1% /tmp
/dev/nvme0n1p3        465G      84G        374G  19% /var
/dev/nvme0n1p3        465G      84G        374G  19% /var/home
/dev/nvme0n1p2          1G       1G          1G  34% /boot
/dev/nvme0n1p1          1G       1G          1G   3% /boot/efi
tmpfs

[Yunraze]

I was wondering about the same thing. Bluefin Disk Usage Analyzer says my / is 10.3 GB available out of 10.3 GB total. What exactly is it measuring here?

[mel226]

Hey! Disk Usage Analyzer/baobab is installed as a Flatpak by default on Bluefin/Aurora. I believe that could be why it’s not showing complete information about the root partition. If I remember correctly, users may also need to run it with admin privileges/sudo to obtain complete information about root when it’s installed traditionally (e.g. via apt on Ubuntu, dnf on non-atomic Fedora, etc). Disks (gnome-disks) will show you the right used/remaining disk space, though it doesn’t break the info down.

As for this (null) thing you’re seeing:

Schijfcapaciteit: (null)

is a bug with udisks: Cant detect disk size · Issue #1194 · storaged-project/udisks · GitHub.

This also happens on one out of two of my machines. Affected (1TB Solidigm drive):

Unaffected (Samsung drive):

Note that Disks also reports “Size: —” on the affected drive, but on the unaffected drive it shows 512 GB. Might be an issue that affects certain drives/boards only.

BTW, Disk Usage Analyzer also doesn’t recognize the full root partition capacity in the unaffected machine, so I assume these are not related issues.

[Yunraze]

That explains a few things. Not a big deal since I use CLI tools for most things anyway. Still kind of weird if this is a known bug and - I assume - Fedora bundles this with Silverblue in a semi-functional state.

[Jonasan]

Thanks, so now I know it’s not my system that’s broke.
Disk Analyzer doesn’t see the correct size either:

With disks, it indeed shows no size, but on the partition it seems correct
(498 GB, 360 available)