Mike
McBride
2002-02-12
3.00.00
KDE
KControl
Block Devices
Disk space

## Block Devices

The module window displays the available file devices and some information about each device. It also allows you to control mount points, and mount/unmount devices.

Normally, the following pieces of information are shown in this tab:

- an icon depicting the type of storage

- file format

- total size

- mount point

- free disk space

- the percentage of space used as a number and as a graph.

Left clicking on the header of a particular column sorts the devices according to that variable. A second left click sorts in the opposite order.

Right clicking on a row pops up a menu. If that device is not currently mounted, the Mount device option is available. If the device is mounted, it can be unmounted by choosing Unmount device. Selecting Open filemanager opens a new window with a graphical view of the files on that device.

The appropriate mount and unmount commands, and how the file manager is opened from the context menu, can be configured from the &kdiskfree; application.

### Section Author

This section is modified from the kdf documentation which was authored by Jonathan Singer jsinger@leeta.net

Modified for KDE 2.0 by Mike McBride mpmcbride7@yahoo.com