Andreas Mohr wrote:
Hi,
On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 01:57:55PM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote:
Speaking of free disk space detection.... I have had it happen with at least 2 different programs (I can document more fully, just not this second) that if I have a 20 GB partition ("games", 6GB free) mounted in my home directory (/home/holly/games, but /home itself has only a few hundred MB free), and try to install an app to Y:\games\app_name, I get a warning (or in one case a stop) that there is not enough drive space to install the app because there is not enough space on Y:\ (i.e., in /home), but there is, in reality, enough space in Y:\games (i.e., in the mounted partition).
It really cannot be solved by anything else other than the end user, by creating a new drive mapping for the specially spacey sub directory.
Again, drive mapping focuses on the space properties of the partition containing the root directory of the mapping, since this very drive letter is the only reference point of windows programs. It wouldn't even make sense to let Wine *manually* (i.e. very wasteful operation!) figure out the combined disk space of the sub directories beyond a drive mapping and advertise the combined space to Windows programs, since then you give a free space of 60GB for /home/holly, whereas the program will die a HORRIBLE death if it then boldly goes on with installing a 50GB game in /home/holly/install_dir...
If you have further mount points below another drive, then the user DOES need to advertise this as another drive letter mapping to let Windows programs know about it properly without any opportunities for failure.
Andreas Mohr
Fair enough (if unfortunate). I guess this is one of the Linux advantages that cannot be munged so that Windows programs can make use of it :-( .
Oh, well, another addition to my "To-do" list, then; make a note of this for documentation patch purposes. I'm sure that I'm not the only one who might get caught by this unexpectedly.
Thanks for explaining.
Holly