bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-18 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Thursday January 17 2019 23:43:39 Assaf Gordon wrote: >The parameter name "--apparent-size" is not likely to be changed. I was thinking of making it an alias for a more aptly named parameter (long) before (possibly) phasing out the current name. >It has been named so for about 16 years (sinc

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-17 Thread René J . V . Bertin
On Wednesday January 16 2019 16:06:50 Assaf Gordon wrote: Hello, Yes, I used the exact same directory in all comparisons. It's a nodejs cache (or whatever) directory as you may have guessed; I picked it because it's a good example of the sort of directory found these days which can create cons

bug#34110: feature request: dual-column du output, showing "real" and "on-disk" sizes (and about that "apparent-size" concept)

2019-01-16 Thread René J . V . Bertin
Hi, I hope feature requests are acceptable here. Now that more and more filesystems have support for compression it becomes more interesting the comparre actual file/directory (content) size and the corresponding on-disk size. Currently you have to call du twice to do that, which quickly becom