Re: Feature request(s) df and ls/dir

[James Youngman]

On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 12:03:15AM -0500, Chris Oxenreider wrote:

> I know this is the wrong forum for this, but I could not find a more 
> appropriate e-mail address to send this too.

No, this is the right forum.

> I have two things I would like to see.  In no particular order:
> 
> I would like to se ls/dir report 'megabytes' much like the feature in 
> 'du -m' or 'df -m' does.

How exactly would this differ from 
        ls -lh 
        ls -s --block-size=1M
        ls -l --block-size=1M

> I would also like to see 'df' add line feeds in when reporting space in 
> long device names such as Linux LVMs.

The df program already does this by default I think.  Are you asking
for a behaviour where df *avoids* doing this?

How is this different from 
        df -PB 1M
        df -Ph

Regards,
James.