The number that's reported in the screenshot has nothing to do with the actual freespace on the partition. You probably guessed that, but you mentioned that the number reported (175921... GiB) is 780,000 times your drive. What I'm getting at is that the number, 17592186044416 is actually the highest (Gigabyte) number representable in decimal form by a 64 bit unsigned integer. (Multiply it by 1024 and 1024 again to see a number that's the same as 2^64).
I'm currently at university in the computer center (with not much time currently) so I can't recreate the scenario on any PCs here, nor do I have my laptop (loaded with Ubuntu) on it, but I'm guessing it may be to do with the program (disks) having problems reading the size of the free space partition. Is the hard drive in question anything special? Like SCSI? or SATA? -- [disks-admin] Free space size line is incorrect. https://launchpad.net/bugs/68172 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
