I think I've found all the instances of this bug: files.el (already fixed) and ls-lisp.el (already identified) and tramp-sh.el. I attached recipes to reproduce against master @ 0646c6817139aa905a2f6079fdc82eb4be944de0. The preceding libraries are the 3 implementations of insert-directory I found. From what I can tell, these are usually expected to be called from dired and list-directory, the former of which ensures default-directory is set as expected before calling insert-directory, and the latter of which does not, which is where this was initially reported. Testing these in a real scenario doesn't show any other interesting behaviors. Invoking via dired always does the correct thing, and invoking via list-directory, or calling insert-directory directly, always does the wrong thing (i.e. shows the free space of default-directory instead of the insert-directory file arg) when the default-directory does not match the file argument. This is true when either/both of the insert-directory arg or the default-directory are standard paths or tramp paths. I think the fixes for the remaining two libraries are going to be as simple as the previous fix: pass file-system-info the actual file arg instead of ".". While ensuring default-directory is set as we want seems to allow "." to work correctly, I haven't found a concrete advantage to that over just passing the file arg through. (e.g. some path expansion that only file-system-info can do.) I'm not very confident that I understand that space fully, though. Though the fixes may be simple, the tests for even one of the libraries would be large enough to require my completed copyright assignment, which is in progress now. The approach I have working now is just to stub out file-system-info to simulate returning different free space for different paths and verifying list-directory/insert-directory shows the matching free space. Anybody see any big problems with that or have other suggestions? I also don't want to duplicate that test for each of the 3 libraries, but I haven't found a good way to share test utilities like that yet.