IM's between me and Cooper a few weeks back:

Well, I guess I can take the "ha " out of my clipboard now, because the Sun bug-bot sent me an e-mail to say that Bug 4057701 (Need way to find free disk space) has been closed as fixed.

The bug report shows it as being fixed in mustang(b39), and thanks to the mustang project on java.net, you can check it out for yourself. And I literally mean you, because I'm on a Mac and thus can't build Mustang.

Still, it's a huge relief that after all this time, this embarrassing oversight/omission is finally being resolved. And by "finally", it's worth nothing that Thursday would have marked eight years to the day after the bug was filed.