On Sun, Aug 26, 2018 at 03:04:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > 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... >
No. I actually meant 'di': $ apt-cache show di Package: di Source: di (4.34-2) Version: 4.34-2+b1 Installed-Size: 105 Maintainer: Michael Ablassmeier <a...@debian.org> Architecture: amd64 Depends: libc6 (>= 2.3) Description-en: advanced df like disk information utility `di' is a disk information utility, displaying everything (and more) that your `df' command does. It features the ability to display your disk usage in whatever format you desire/prefer/are used to. It is designed to be portable across many platforms. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez
