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bug#10915: 8.13: df -- overly long output lines are very hard to read
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Pádraig Brady |
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bug#10915: 8.13: df -- overly long output lines are very hard to read |
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Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:38:01 +0000 |
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On 03/01/2012 06:41 AM, Jari Aalto wrote:
>
> With long path names, the output is very hard to read because each line is
> so long:
>
> $ df -Hl
>
> Filesystem Size Used Avail
> Use% Mounted on
> rootfs 6.0G 4.1G 1.7G
> 72% /
> udev 192M 0 192M
> 0% /dev
> tmpfs 40M 1.5M 38M
> 4% /run
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/492764a5-7506-4489-8fd0-82d0d284d627 6.0G 4.1G 1.7G
> 72% /
> tmpfs 5.3M 0 5.3M
> 0% /run/lock
> tmpfs 79M 7.9M 71M
> 10% /tmp
> tmpfs 79M 0 79M
> 0% /run/shm
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/492764a5-7506-4489-8fd0-82d0d284d627 6.0G 4.1G 1.7G
> 72% /srv/cante.src
> /dev/disk/by-uuid/492764a5-7506-4489-8fd0-82d0d284d627 6.0G 4.1G 1.7G
> 72% /srv/cante.tmp
> /dev/sdb1 18G 8.1G 8.3G
> 50% /mnt/extent
> /dev/sdb1 18G 8.1G 8.3G
> 50% /usr/src
> /dev/sdb1 18G 8.1G 8.3G
> 50% /root/vc
I wouldn't say that's very hard to read at all.
We've addressed the specific uuid case above anyway.
>
> In a smaller terminal the lines wrap, which makes it even harder:
Well that's not the common case, nor is it common to have
naturally long "Filesystem" items.
For these uncommon cases you could just use a pager like:
df | less -S
> SUGGESTIONS
>
> (1) Add exclude to option to filter out items from the display, thus
> calculating the line-up column better.
>
> -X, --exclude PATTERN
>
> Where patterns could be preferably EREGEXP (best), or in the initial
> implementation a simple STRING to match.
> (2) Also add option to reverse the output to see the values first (most
> important) in a full display:
>
> -r, --reverse
I'm not that enthusiastic about these new options.
cheers,
Pádraig.
bug#10915: 8.13: df -- overly long output lines are very hard to read,
Pádraig Brady <=