Visual indication of free space on drives

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Forez
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Visual indication of free space on drives

#1 Post by Forez » 31.12.2022, 14:02

I would like to propose of adding a visual representation of remaining space on volumes* - similar to what is available in Windows Explorer:

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It would be handy for a user to be able to choose own colors for such feature and the overall values of file weights at which those colors should be applied. Or instead of precise weights set in GBs / Gbs a user could also relay on values set in percentages. This way a user of SSD drives could tell with a single glance if a drive* still has e.g. 20% ow its space left free, thus degrading at a slower rate [https://www.quora.com/Why-should-people ... ace-on-SSD, https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comme ... _bullshit/, https://forums.tomshardware.com/threads ... s.3480962/], or had is already hit a critical point of veing full in 99% of its capacity

[* disk vs. partition vs. volume explained: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeDYxBulZ6c&t=562s]


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Re: Visual indication of free space on drives

#3 Post by Forez » 31.12.2022, 18:24

Dreamer wrote: 31.12.2022, 17:27 What about this: https://freecommander.com/fchelpxe/en/U ... eInfo.html
This helps but:
● is not configurable - thus can break Color Scheme
● does not produce data for all of the drives in one window / screen - thus is hard in usage as a tool for managing of free space
● takes permanently precious vertical space - because in the end every saved pixel counts towards seeing more items on one screen without having to scroll

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