Re: Minor bug in df

[Luke Kendall]

Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 12/02/10 08:40, Luke Kendall wrote:
> > (A long time ago) Jim Meyering wrote:
> > > Luke Kendall <address@hidden> wrote:
> > > > The column formatting of the plain "df" output is misaligned, making it
> > > > hard to read. Same is true for -P option. For example:
> > > ...
> > > > : /home/data/audio; df --version
> > > > df (GNU coreutils) 5.96
> > >
> > > Thanks for the report.
> > > That's probably fixed in the latest stable release: coreutils-6.9.
> > > If not, please let us know.
> >
> > Still broken for me:
>
> It's to do with your locale:
>
> $ head -n1 /etc/issue
> Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
>
> $ dpkg -s coreutils | grep Version
> Version: 7.4-2ubuntu1
>
> $for LANG in en_AU.utf8 en_IE.utf8; do df | head -n2; done
> Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             14421344   6657252   7031532  49% /
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1             14421344   6657252   7031532  49% /
>
> Interestingly I can't reproduce it on fedora 11 (coreutils-7.2) or
> fedora 12 (coreutils-7.6), or on en_AU on unbuntu.
> Note coreutils doesn't provide english variant translations,
> while ubuntu does, so I'm guessing it's an issue with the
> en_AU ubuntu coreutils translation?

I think you're right.  I'll report it.

$ head -n1 /etc/issue
Ubuntu 9.10 \n \l
$ dpkg -s coreutils | grep Version
Version: 7.4-2ubuntu1
env | grep LANG
LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
GDM_LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
$ for LANG in C en_AU.utf8 en_IE.utf8; do df | head -n2; done
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              12389244  10877948    881956  93% /
Filesystem           1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              12389244  10877948    881956  93% /
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1              12389244  10877948    881956  93% /

$ env | grep LC
LC_COLLATE=C
$ egrep "(LC|LOCALE|LANG)" /etc/profile
# that's set by LANG=en_US.UTF-8
export LC_COLLATE=C

> > However, df -P works (except for large drives).
>
> I'll look at fixing the alignment for large drives soon.

That would be good, too.

> cheers,
> Pádraig.

Many thanks!  And sorry for my slow reply.

luke