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.
