On Tuesday, 31 January 2006 at 3:57:11 +0300, Yar Tikhiy wrote: > On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 11:58:19PM +0000, Robert Watson wrote: >> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: >>> On Monday, 30 January 2006 at 15:35:25 +0300, Gleb Smirnoff wrote: >>>> M> Make df output in periodic mail human readable >>>> >>>> Thanks! >>> >>> *sigh* >>> >>> Not everybody is human. >> >> My daily script parsers certainly aren't. I quite like being able to pull >> in a mailbox of old daily output and plot disk space use over time. The >> problem with df -h is that as the numbers get bigger, the granularity >> becomes very, very coarse. I.e., you can only see changes at 1GB >> granularity for big disks, so you can't actually usefully track in any >> detail daily usage rates. > > I think that if the war of computers against humans ever begins, > it will break out from an event like this commit. And then some > geek folks will certainly come down on the side of computers. The > granularity of "df -h" is too coarse even to, ahem, some readers > of the list, keep alone the scripts. Quite naturally, they dread > being treated as inadequately human some day soon. > > To help keep peace, let's support the campaign against denying > computers their right to get complete and uncensored information > in plain text or, under very special conditions, XML :-)
It's actually heartening to see so many people agreeing with me on this one; I wasn't expecting it. We should recognize that neither way is a solution. The solution would be to make this kind of thing easily configurable. That would mean something like a knob DFFLAGS in /etc/defaults/rc.conf. I'd argue (of course) for it to be -k by default (though I'd personally change it to -m). Greg -- See complete headers for address and phone numbers.
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