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bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing
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Drew Adams |
Subject: |
bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing |
Date: |
Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:18:54 +0000 (UTC) |
> >> The first line of a directory listing reads
> >>
> >> total used in directory 71752 available 65.2 GiB
> >>
> >> where it is a mystery what the first number represents. Often it is
> >> 512-byte
> >> blocks, which is confusing and not very useful, and cannot easily be
> >> compared with the 'available' number (which is crystal clear).
> >
> > Feel free to suggest a clarification in the doc string of 'dired'.
>
> An alternative is to do for "total used" what was done for "available".
> On systems that use `ls' (at least the GNU version), users can do that
> by setting the environment variable BLOCK_SIZE, but since the change to
> the display of "available" was unconditional (if I'm not mistaken), we
> could do the same for the display of "total used", e.g. as in the below
> patch. (But since this won't work on systems that don't use GNU `ls',
> either another solution just for them or a different general one would
> be needed.)
FWIW, my `ls-lisp+.el' code gives this:
files 38/38 space used 2563 available 103423152
and mouse-over (`help-echo') on the `files 38/38' says:
Files shown / total files in directory
and mouse-over on the `space used ...' part says:
Kbytes used in directory, Kbytes available on disk
and `RET' or `mouse-2' anywhere on that line pops up
`*Help* with info like this (` help-fns+.el' is also
needed, for function `describe-file'):
g:/usr/foo/bar
--------------
File Type: Directory
Permissions: drwxrwxrwx
Time of last access: Mon Apr 22 04:48:30 2019 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Time of last modification: Mon Apr 22 04:48:30 2019 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Time of last status change: Wed Jul 25 08:00:46 2018 (Pacific Daylight Time)
Number of links: 1
User ID (UID): 68752
Group ID (GID): 312
Inode: 281474976872649
Device number: 315267003
Maybe some such aids could be added to vanilla Dired.
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/07/19
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/19
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Stephen Berman, 2019/07/19
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing,
Drew Adams <=
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Mattias Engdegård, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Drew Adams, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Drew Adams, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Eli Zaretskii, 2019/07/21
- bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing, Juri Linkov, 2019/07/26