Hi,
>>"Christian" == Christian Schwarz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Christian> O
Christian> I can't follow you here. Where are they useless without
Christian> knowing the filesystem structure?
I have /usr/, /usr/lib/, /var, /var/spool, /usr/local, /usr/src
/home/ftp, /usr/local/src, /opt, and toher separate partitions. If
the data gathered is a summation for each top level directory, what
good is it for me to know that /usr has so much used? my /usr/lib is
the really tight one.
How exactly are the statistics gatherd? Is the size of every
file in the archive stored? What on earth for? Why is it so hard to
do:
% ar p vm-el_6.41-1_all.deb data.tar.gz | tar zvf | awk '{print $3 "\t" $6}'
This gives, nicly formatted:
______________________________________________________________________
0 ./
0 usr/
0 usr/doc/
0 usr/doc/vm-el/
542 usr/doc/vm-el/README.debian.gz
1280 usr/doc/vm-el/README.gz
1490 usr/doc/vm-el/copyright
12776 usr/doc/vm-el/changelog.Debian.gz
0 usr/lib/
0 usr/lib/emacs/
0 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/
0 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/
21247 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/tapestry.el
129185 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-autoload.el
781 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-byteopts.el
11499 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-delete.el
27767 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-digest.el
8143 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-easymenu.el
10071 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-edit.el
139933 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-folder.el
1738 usr/lib/emacs/site-lisp/vm/vm-license.el
______________________________________________________________________
It takes too much time, you say? Have you checked?
--------------------------------------------
User time (seconds): 0.01
System time (seconds): 0.02
Percent of CPU this job got: 8%
Elapsed (wall clock) time (h:mm:ss or m:ss): 0:00.34
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Faugh. People have forgotten how to use tools in this day of
cookie cutter approach to computing.
Christian> Consider a future version of deity which checks out
Christian> /etc/fstab, reads in the du files, sums up the du entries
Christian> according to the local filesystem structure, and opens a
Christian> nice dialog window which displays the disk space usage for
Christian> each selected package--splitted up into the local
Christian> filesystem structure.
As mentioned above, future deity packages shall hopefully be
intelligent enough not to need redundant du files.
Christian> Of course, this all is still `science fiction' since there
Christian> is currently no tool to use the du files. With that, you
Christian> are definitely right that they are just wasted disk space.
They are wasted disk space no matter when.
Christian> So, does everyone here agree that we explicitely forbid the
Christian> use of `du' files (and check this via lintian bug reports)?
Yes, most definitely so.
manoj
sick of windows and helper packages
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