Bug 325911 - [LiveCD] - Beta3+ - "Hard Drive 0b Free / 0b Total"
Summary: [LiveCD] - Beta3+ - "Hard Drive 0b Free / 0b Total"
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: openSUSE 10.3
Classification: openSUSE
Component: GNOME (show other bugs)
Version: Beta 3
Hardware: Other Other
: P3 - Medium : Normal (vote)
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Assignee: Scott Reeves
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Whiteboard: gnome-wrong-out-of-the-box
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Blocks: main-menu-behavior
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Reported: 2007-09-18 08:19 UTC by Lukas Ocilka
Modified: 2010-11-28 10:01 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Lukas Ocilka 2007-09-18 08:19:14 UTC 
In the GNOME menu, there is a "Hard Drive" information but it doesn't present any useful piece of information because LiveCD doesn't use any Hard Drive. It actually only confuses users saying "Hard Drive 0b Free / 0b Total". In my opinion, it should be removed as it doesn't say anything.

Additionally, I mounted some partition to /mnt reopened the menu, it still had "Hard Drive 0b Free / 0b Total" which was odd in that moment.
Comment 2 Federico Mena Quintero 2007-12-18 17:03:20 UTC 
I've never tested the LiveCD, so forgive me for asking obvious questions :)  Do you have a writable home directory when you use the LiveCD?

We could have a special case to see if $HOME is writable, and not show the free space in that case...
Comment 3 Lukas Ocilka 2007-12-18 21:48:04 UTC 
IMHO the whole system (exceptions?) should be writable, but let's ask jsrain - the maintainer of LiveCD ;)
Comment 4 Jiri Srain 2008-01-03 12:09:39 UTC 
I don't maintain the whole live CD, just the installer, anyway, hopefully I can help:

Live CD uses UnionFS (or something similar) to allow write access even though from the live media the filesystem si mounted as read-only (and the changes are stored transparently in RAM). Thus whole filesystem is writable (as long as one has enough memory).

Removing the tool is IMO not a good way to go - you can clone the live system to hard disk (there is an icon on desktop to do it), where it starts making sense.

What makes more sense to me is to detect UnionFS and write a meaningful message in this case.
Comment 5 Bjørn Lie 2010-11-28 10:01:45 UTC 
Looks fixed for me in 11.3 livecd - "Hd" shows free space on the mounted loop device.

Please reopen against current version if any of you disagree.