From: Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se>
To: "Mattias Engdegård" <mattiase@acm.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, jidanni@jidanni.org, larsi@gnus.org,
juri@linkov.net, 44273@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 05:35:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CADwFkmmgyeQcVKBjOFMs6GOeWbZgrNW2Lq3rcTahNPMn8mBVgw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8CE469DC-A264-4E80-8232-0EEFFE8250A3@acm.org> ("Mattias Engdegård"'s message of "Sun, 1 Nov 2020 17:37:31 +0100")
tags 44273 + wontfix
close 44273
thanks
Mattias Engdegård <mattiase@acm.org> writes:
> 1 nov. 2020 kl. 16.51 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>:
>
>> It isn't: that value shows the total disk space allocation, i.e. the
>> file sizes are rounded up to the nearest disk block size.
>
> It's often not even the disk block size (frequently 512 or 1024 byte regardless of the block size), and in any case that rounding does not add any valuable information.
>
>>> but the 'file size' of a subdirectory is practically impossible to interpret in a useful way.
>>
>> We are not talking about file sizes, we are talking about the "total
>> NNN" part.
>
> The 'file size' of all displayed subdirectory entries are included in that number, which makes it even more difficult to interpret.
>
> If the size field of each displayed entry could be accurately located and
> parsed, then that could be used to compose a more useful and defensible 'total'
> number. However this does not appear likely given the variation in locales,
> implementations and user-supplied options.
>
> Given the opposition to removing the field, I propose that this bug be closed with wontfix (again). Let's use our time more productively.
OK, let's do that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-11 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 68+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-10-28 5:12 bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB" 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-10-28 10:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 10:43 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 10:53 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 11:02 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 11:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 11:23 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 11:47 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28 12:10 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 12:18 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 12:26 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-28 12:29 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-28 15:38 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 15:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-29 8:36 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-28 14:39 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-28 14:49 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-10-28 15:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 11:36 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 11:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-31 9:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 15:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-28 15:55 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-28 15:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-29 0:03 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-10-29 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-29 8:48 ` Andreas Schwab
2020-10-30 3:05 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-30 7:18 ` Juri Linkov
2020-10-30 8:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 11:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 11:41 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 11:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-31 19:14 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-01 11:38 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-11-01 11:55 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-01 15:21 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 15:41 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-01 15:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 16:37 ` Mattias Engdegård
2020-11-01 19:25 ` Jean Louis
2021-10-11 12:35 ` Stefan Kangas [this message]
2020-11-01 19:16 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 18:57 ` Jean Louis
2020-11-01 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 19:38 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-11-01 19:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-11-01 19:51 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-10-31 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-30 19:03 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-03 3:17 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-03 18:39 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-03 19:51 ` Drew Adams
2020-11-04 19:41 ` Juri Linkov
2020-11-04 20:53 ` Drew Adams
2020-10-30 11:34 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-29 4:54 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-30 12:22 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-10-30 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 13:39 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-30 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-10-30 14:54 ` Michael Albinus
2020-10-31 0:12 ` 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson
2020-10-31 4:45 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-31 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
2020-10-31 4:47 ` Richard Stallman
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