No External Drives showing

[SeaDaddytheRed]

Hello, I am on the latest Zorin OS and am unable to see any of my external drives in Lean Conky.

I recently switched from Windows so all my external drives are still NTFS. Is the automatic detection not compatible with ntfs drives?

Thank you for any help.

[buck2202]

(duplicating https://github.com/jxai/lean-conky-config/issues/22#issuecomment-2211157208 on a related issue)

I was poking around in the code for a related reason (hiding bind mounts), and I think you can get what you want by modifying utils.enum_disks() in utils.lua

It just parses the output of findmnt, filtered down to specific filesystem types https://github.com/jxai/lean-conky-config/blob/27aeeb9c793ad3da8d1da9b777522eef9000e2df/lib/utils.lua#L130-L134

Maybe add ntfs-3g (or whatever you're using) to the types list to start?

But FWIW, my (permanent) ntfs mounts get caught as fuseblk. You can check the output of findmnt -bPUno TARGET,FSTYPE,SIZE,USED and see if your missing mounts are in there, and why they might be getting filtered out

[SeaDaddytheRed]

Thank you for the advice.

I tried adding ntfs, and ntfs-3g, but neither gave me any luck.

BUT, I did add exfat which made my one exfat formatted drive show up on lean.

Then I tried findmnt and saw my ntfs drives listed as FSTYPE="ntfs3". So adding "ntfs3" to the fs_types fixed it!

Thank you again for you help!

[SeaDaddytheRed]

If I could just ask one more thing?

Is there a way to get the used space to display in GiB even if the hdd is larger than 1TiB?

[buck2202]

There's probably a cleaner way to do this, but at a glance you can edit filesize in lib/external/filesize.lua

Change https://github.com/jxai/lean-conky-config/blob/27aeeb9c793ad3da8d1da9b777522eef9000e2df/lib/external/filesize.lua#L73-L76 to

        -- Exceeding supported length, time to reduce & multiply
        if o.exponent > 3 then
            o.exponent = 3
        end

This could probably be done in a cleaner, less-permanent way via a new config argument, but my lua/conky familiarity isn't the best. Works for me in a pinch, though

(edited out unnecessary changes)

[SeaDaddytheRed]

Thank you! It works well enough for me.

Next I am going to try and get the following information for each hdd.

Name - Total Space - Free Space - [fs_type] - Percentage

It just makes more sense to me to see how many GiB you have left at a glance than total used. My external HDD are constantly being filled and I would rather see just how much space I have left at a quick glance.