elementary / elementary/files

Free disk space not updated after external file operations not affecting the views

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Description

### What Happened?

When i hover over the root filesystem, it reports 6,3 GB free disk space, but more is already used and only 2.1 GB are actually free.

It can even be different on different Files windows: https://youtu.be/veGiWXvZe5o

### Steps to Reproduce

1. Check free disk space in files

![Screenshot from 2022-04-28 19-34-41](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/91113/165813566-3ec85c1e-33fc-4be8-b806-4f9b849f19c9.png)

2. Use some of that space
3. check disk space again. it has not changed
4. check with a different tool like `df -h` in terminal

```
[davidak@gaming:~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
devtmpfs 1.6G 0 1.6G 0% /dev
tmpfs 16G 477M 16G 3% /dev/shm
tmpfs 7.9G 7.7M 7.9G 1% /run
tmpfs 16G 480K 16G 1% /run/wrappers
/dev/sda2 450G 427G 2.1G 100% /
tmpfs 29G 153M 29G 1% /tmp
tmpfs 3.2G 84K 3.2G 1% /run/user/1000
```

the available space is different!

### Expected Behavior

the free disk space should be displayed in real time when i hover it

### OS Version

Other Linux

### Software Version

Latest release (I have run all updates)

### Log Output

_No response_

### Hardware Info

Internal SATA SSD

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