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
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