[10.2] Gnome Menu status area: useless disk space display

On the Gnome desktop of a fresh openSUSE 10.2 install, the menu which
opens when I click the "Computer" button in the lower left corner of
the screen and which, for lack of a better name, I'll call the
"Gnome Menu", has in its lower right part an area titled
"Status"
displaying right now:

Hard disk
425M free/486M total

which is ridiculous, given the actual disk space of the machine:

Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/system-root
                      20642428   5401376  14192476  28% /
/dev/sda1               497829     62043    410084  14% /boot
/dev/mapper/system-home
                      20642428  15519004   4074848  80% /home
/dev/mapper/system-var
                      10321208    429692   9367228   5% /var
/dev/mapper/system-img
                      20642428   2202012  17391840  12% /img

What's happening is that, from all the filesystems on my machine,
the Gnome Menu chose precisely the least useful one for its little
free space display: the /boot partition, which is not only the
smallest one as well as the one least likely to change, but
incidentally also the only one I cannot even write to at all,
unless I switch to superuser privileges.

Anything would be more useful than that. But there doesn't seem
to be any way of influencing that behaviour.

Suggestions?

-- 
Tilman Schmidt                          E-Mail: tilman@imap.cc
Bonn, Germany
- In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.

Tilman Schmidt,

What it should do is to show the total of all your mounted disks.
It should summarize all the disks mounted and show you the available
and total from that.

You say this is on a fresh install. Have you applied any patches?
On my system it calculates the space accurately but I'm up to date as
far as the patches are concerned.


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Systems Engineer/NSC Sysop
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