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

[Lars Ingebrigtsen]

Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:

> Because some people find it useful.

Do you have data to back that up?  :-)

> If we want that line to look different, it would be easy
> for Dired to edit it after reading it from ls.  But we
> should not delete the  data in it.
>
> If you don't want that line, you could customize your Dired to delete
> it.

My suggestion is to not display the line by default.  People who do find
it useful can switch it on (but I doubt they exist in large numbers).

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