Re: [PATCH] df - column alignments with large filesystems

[Pádraig Brady]

On 06/02/10 15:01, Robert Jenkins wrote:
> Hi,
> (First patch submission, apologies for any errors).
>
> As of coreutils 8.4, df's column alignments still get messy with larger
> filesystems, 1TB&  up.
> This patch adjusts the column spacings to maintain vertical alignment.
>
> I've tried it with various display format options and as far as I can see it
> works correctly.
> Tested on a Centos 5.4 x86_64 system

Thanks for that.
However I think we need something more general than adding another space.
Consider for example the output from: df -B\'1
One can pipe the output to `column -t` and it's much more readable.
However doing more general alignment within df is still useful I think because:
  Numbers would be aligned right
  Spaces within (translated) column headings would be handled
  No dependence on the non standardized `column` utility

We intend to work on that at some stage, but any ideas/patches are welcome.

cheers,
Pádraig.