file sizefilemanagernautilus
I would like to know if it's possible to display the current folder size (in MB or GB) in Nautilus at the status bar.
Here's a screenshot:
as you can see, (in this case) I have 7 items, and I have 125.7 GB left. I would like to display:
7 Items, Folder size: 412 MB, Free space: 125.7 GB
Is it possible? If so how?
Neither Thunar, PCManFM, nor Nautilus have this feature, I don't know about Dolphin as I don't have it Installed, while I think is possible they could have it they don't currently use it.
As @Tom mentioned in the comments, Gnome Sushi is the closest to have that but you need to press the Space bar for the window to show and I don't know if if it's a bug only affecting me but the Sushi window uses a Black background with black text making it useless but you can still try it.
You need to zoom out.
Use Ctrl + Scroll to zoom in and out, like you would do on a webpage.
You might also prefer listview - at the top click the icon that looks like this: ≡. It will look like this instead:
Best Answer
The reason this information is not in the statusbar is probably because it requires a lot of disk reading to find the disk usage of a directory. Consider opening
/. It'll have to recursively traverse the entire filesystem in order to find the disk usage. The ammount of free space on the other hand, is very quick to retrieve since each filesystem keeps track of this.