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bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing
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Lars Ingebrigtsen |
Subject: |
bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing |
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Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:00:08 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Mattias EngdegÄrd <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> 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).
>
> It has always been thus, but previously the 'available' number was
> itself somewhat obscure so the first number didn't stand out.
Hm... My buffers read:
But that's because I have:
(setq dired-listing-switches "-alh")
It's confusing that it's doing the human-readable bit on the available
but not on the "used" with the default "-al".
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