On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 10:23 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>>>> "JY" == James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > JY> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 9:29 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> `%S' > >> File's sparseness. This is calculated as `(BLOCKSIZE*st_blocks / > >> st_size)'. > >> > >> OK, but then mention the -printf % keys for st_blocks and st_size! > > JY> They're already mentioned in the documentation, though. > > That's good to know, but the user does not know this. > > Maybe %S is calculated from other % items. > > So then the paragraph should read: > This is calculated as "%Z * %X / %Y" > with of course the actual % letters.
If you read the manpage, you'll notice that a statement of that form is not possible, since the paragraph you quoted goes on to say "The value used for BLOCKSIZE is system-dependent, but is usually 512 bytes." That means that the explanation can't use %b, because that may not be the same thing as st_blocks. If you would like to propose some specific replacement text, we can try to figure out something which is both accurate and responsive to your original comment. James.
