On 27 Oct 2012 18:43 +0200, from mar...@lichtvoll.de (Martin Steigerwald): > Possibly this could be done tabular as well, like: > > vdb vdc vdd > Data, RAID 0 307,25MB 307,25MB 307,25MB > … > System,RAID1 - 8MB 8MB > … > Unused 2,23GB 2,69GB 2,24GB > > I like this. But what if the filesystem has 100 disks?
Maybe I'm just not familiar enough with btrfs yet to punch an immediate hole in the idea, but how about pivoting that table? Columns for data values ("data, raid 0", "system, raid 1", "unused", ...) and rows for the underlying devices? Something like this, copying the numbers from your example. And I'm using colon here rather than comma, because I _believe_ that it better captures the intent. Data: RAID 0 System: RAID 1 Unused /dev/vdb 307.25 MB - 2.23 GB /dev/vdc 307.25 MB 8 MB 2.69 GB /dev/vdd 307.25 MB 8 MB 2.24 GB ============ ============== ============ TOTAL 921.75 MB 16 MB 7.16 GB This feels like it should work quite well as long as only 3-5 columns plus the device specifier are needed (which would appear to be the case), and it gives a quick run-down of the numbers at a glance. If the filesystem consists of a large number of devices, the header could possibly be repeated just before the "total" row (then something like "btrfs fi df | tail -n2" will still work for getting the executive summary). The risk would be if extremely long device names are used, but that should be relatively trivial to solve. Maybe something like this if the terminal width does not allow the data for each device to fit on a single line? Data: RAID 0 System: RAID 1 Unused /dev/disk/by-uuid/f72d74f4-206d-11e2-aa11-cb4348b38f9e 307.25 MB - 2.23 GB /dev/disk/by-uuid/044e48de-206e-11e2-8a63-8366c6174d47 307.25 MB 8 MB 2.69 GB /dev/disk/by-uuid/0b1309a2-206e-11e2-aa21-234780dc3782 307.25 MB 8 MB 2.24 GB ============ ============== ========== TOTAL 921.75 MB 16 MB 7.16 GB Both of the above, as you will note, are very similar to how GNU df solves the same problem. Line breaking could also be disabled if standard output is not a TTY, which means that for example passing the output to grep would still work like one would expect. Any reason why such an output format wouldn't work for a summary view? -- Michael Kjörling • http://michael.kjorling.se • mich...@kjorling.se “People who think they know everything really annoy those of us who know we don’t.” (Bjarne Stroustrup) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-btrfs" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html