On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 10:38:19PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 12:25:44PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > > A regular itchy annoyance for years now: > > > > df shows bytes, df -h shows only one decimal place, so e.g. on a > > 1.8TiB drive "1.6T" is the free space, but that resolution/ precision > > is insufficient. Of course I can fire up bc, set scale=20 and do some > > powers of 1024 division, but that's all very clunky. > > > > How hard would it be to add an option to bc, to choose the number of > > decimal places to use in the output, or the number of digits of > > precision to display? > > > > Have you looked at the -k and -B options? Also, di has the -d option
I assume you mean "du"? Unfortunately the du command recursively scans directories - not a quick option when all you want is a summary for the drive/ partition. > which is more flexible and it also supports format strings. You should > be able to make it produce output in exactly the way you need. Thank you - I do use du from time to time, but it's just too slow for whole-drive (or partition) "quick" checks...
