bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

[Mattias Engdegård]

28 okt. 2020 kl. 11.43 skrev Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>:

> But I really don't know why dired displays this stuff at all.  It seems
> irrelevant: The "total" is incomprehensible in any case, and the free
> space stuff isn't something I've asked for: If I want to know, it's just
> a standard command away.
> 
> So I think the line should just be removed; perhaps with a defcustom
> (defaulting to off).

I'm all for removing it, but there is the usual howling crowd insisting that it 
is indispensable and highly meaningful on their machine and how dare we even 
think of changing anything in Emacs. Good luck.
That's why bug#36729 was closed as wontfix. (This is a duplicate.)