Feature request: calculate free space a different way
Posted: Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:42 pmOK, not sure how much demand there will be for this feature but I thought I'd throw it out there. I've mentioned my setup before but here it is again so there's a context for my suggestion.
I have a MacBook, and Airport Extreme, and an XBOX. The Airport Extreme has a 500gb external drive attached to it via USB. My MacBook accesses the drive via AirDisk which is really just a program that automounts the AFP or SMB device when it becomes available. Anyways, the 500gb shows up as a network drive.
I have a folder that hazel watches and when anything shows up there it picks it up and moves it to a folder on the 500gb drive. Unfortunately neither MacOS or the AirDisk software keeps very good track of free space on networked drives.
The drive is always stuffed to capacity. I use my XBOX to watch a TV show or movie from the 500gb and then delete the files via the XBOX when I'm done. This frees up disk space on the device Finder still shows it as having only a little bit free, so Hazel won't move anything new to it. Of course when I disconnect and reconnect everything starts moving again.
Not even sure if this is something that you can do if you wanted to since you're probably using OS hooks to get the free space anyways. I haven't had a chance to use a 'df' command on the drive to see if a terminal session reports more accurate info. Just thought I'd throw it in the wind and see what comes of it...
I have a MacBook, and Airport Extreme, and an XBOX. The Airport Extreme has a 500gb external drive attached to it via USB. My MacBook accesses the drive via AirDisk which is really just a program that automounts the AFP or SMB device when it becomes available. Anyways, the 500gb shows up as a network drive.
I have a folder that hazel watches and when anything shows up there it picks it up and moves it to a folder on the 500gb drive. Unfortunately neither MacOS or the AirDisk software keeps very good track of free space on networked drives.
The drive is always stuffed to capacity. I use my XBOX to watch a TV show or movie from the 500gb and then delete the files via the XBOX when I'm done. This frees up disk space on the device Finder still shows it as having only a little bit free, so Hazel won't move anything new to it. Of course when I disconnect and reconnect everything starts moving again.
Not even sure if this is something that you can do if you wanted to since you're probably using OS hooks to get the free space anyways. I haven't had a chance to use a 'df' command on the drive to see if a terminal session reports more accurate info. Just thought I'd throw it in the wind and see what comes of it...