I can confirm that serpentine has this behavior and that it is infact very confusing. The information is given by hal as volume.disk.capacity. Serpentine should check that value and set the disk length accordingly. It should probably check this at startup and listen on dbus for org.freedesktop.Hal.Manager/DeviceAdded.
Additionally the problem persists in serpentine svn. ** Changed in: serpentine (Ubuntu) Status: Unconfirmed => Confirmed -- Serpentine does not autoset disc capacity, no warning https://launchpad.net/bugs/55228 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs