Bug#786564: Please add option for extra precision human readable output
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 05:37:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: when using df -h the output will use the largest unit that doesn't have a leading 0. This often results in quite imprecise output, e.g. 1.1T or 1.8G. It would be nice if instead it cout use the smallest unit that use 4 or less characters (maybe even 5 if a . is involved). I'm struggling to think of a use case that requires 4 digits of precision on a terabyte filesystem. If you need to know the exact size, then get the size in bytes. Otherwise, it's probably close enough. Mike Stone 4 chars for the number, which would only be 1-2 digits of precision. As in 11.7G instead of 12G or 1750M instead of 1.8G. 4 digits of precision would indeed be too much. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#786564: Please add option for extra precision human readable output
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:49:42AM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 05:37:04PM -0400, Michael Stone wrote: On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: when using df -h the output will use the largest unit that doesn't have a leading 0. This often results in quite imprecise output, e.g. 1.1T or 1.8G. It would be nice if instead it cout use the smallest unit that use 4 or less characters (maybe even 5 if a . is involved). I'm struggling to think of a use case that requires 4 digits of precision on a terabyte filesystem. If you need to know the exact size, then get the size in bytes. Otherwise, it's probably close enough. Mike Stone 4 chars for the number, which would only be 1-2 digits of precision. As in 11.7G instead of 12G or 1750M instead of 1.8G. 4 digits of precision would indeed be too much. We already have at least two digits of precision and often three. Your 1750M *is* 4 digits of precision. And you said maybe even 5 if a . is involved. But I'll restate to avoid the quibble: I'm struggling to think of a use case that requires 3 digits of precision on a terabyte filesystem. If you need to know the exact size, then get the size in bytes. Otherwise, it's probably close enough. ike stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#786564: Please add option for extra precision human readable output
On Fri, May 22, 2015 at 11:24:03PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote: when using df -h the output will use the largest unit that doesn't have a leading 0. This often results in quite imprecise output, e.g. 1.1T or 1.8G. It would be nice if instead it cout use the smallest unit that use 4 or less characters (maybe even 5 if a . is involved). I'm struggling to think of a use case that requires 4 digits of precision on a terabyte filesystem. If you need to know the exact size, then get the size in bytes. Otherwise, it's probably close enough. Mike Stone -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
Bug#786564: Please add option for extra precision human readable output
Package: coreutils Version: 8.21-1.2 Severity: wishlist File: /bin/df Hi, when using df -h the output will use the largest unit that doesn't have a leading 0. This often results in quite imprecise output, e.g. 1.1T or 1.8G. It would be nice if instead it cout use the smallest unit that use 4 or less characters (maybe even 5 if a . is involved). So the output would go 0 - 0 - 10.0k - k or 10.00k - k 10.0M - M 10.00M - M 10.0G - G or 10.00G - G and so on. Extra points for adding a --precision=num chars instead of hardcoding 4/5 chars. MfG Goswin -- System Information: Debian Release: jessie/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Foreign Architectures: i386 armel Kernel: Linux 3.14-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages coreutils depends on: ii libacl1 2.2.52-1 ii libattr1 1:2.4.47-1 ii libc62.19-17 ii libselinux1 2.3-1 coreutils recommends no packages. coreutils suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
