Free size of different volume?

[Richard Gaskin]

Roger.E.Eller wrote:
> First, Scott Kane wrote:
>>>> on mouseUp
>>>>   put the defaultFolder into tDir
>>>>   set the defaultfolder to "/Volumes/util/"
> 
> Then, Richard Gaskin wrote:
>>> It's working here for 2.70 on XP SP 2.   I specify D:/Downloads and get
> the
>>> correct free space in bytes for the drive.
>>
>> Indeed it does.  So this issue seems to affect OS X only.
>>
>> If someone here will be kind enough to verify the bug in OS X I'll post
>> the bug report.
> 
> Are we certain that this is abnormal behavior? On OS X, /Volumes/util/ is
> still on the SAME 'DRIVE' as other /Volumes/places/. Sure they show up as
> different disks, but they aren't really. On Windows, Drive C: and Drive
> <any other letter>: really are different physical devices (unless they are
> network shares mapped to a drive letter).

That's a good thought.  In the case I'd first tested, "util" is indeed a 
partition rather than a separate physical device.

While not a different physical drive, "util" is a separate volume and 
has its own separate disk space, so I feel it should still be recognized 
and have its disk space returned when the defaultFolder is set to it.

But in the interest of sleuthing this to completion I also mounted one 
of my FireWire drives, and got the same result.

This has now been logged to BZ for your voting pleasure:
<http://quality.runrev.com/qacenter/show_bug.cgi?id=5091>

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