why not just set BLOCKSIZE to 1M when running df/du?


On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Simon Burge wrote:

# Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2001 13:53:27 +1100
# From: Simon Burge <simonb@wasabisystems.com>
# To: Tomas Svensson <tsn@gbdev.net>
# Cc: tech-userlevel@netbsd.org
# Subject: Re: Suggestion for changes to df(1) and du(1)
#
# Hi Tomas,
#
# Tomas Svensson wrote:
#
# > Hi,
# >
# > Does anyone have an opinion about adding the flag -h to df(1) and du(1)?
#
# Sounds good.  I was just talking about this yesterday with some folks :-)
#
# > It would be to print the statistics in a more "human-readable" and
# > compact style.
# >
# > Example output:
# >
# > Filesystem    Size   Used  Avail Capacity  Mounted on
# > /dev/wd0a      97M    31M    61M    33%    /
# > /dev/wd0e      97M   4.7M    88M     5%    /var
# > /dev/wd0g     2.8G   1.5G   1.2G    54%    /usr
# > /dev/wd0f      97M   1.0K    92M     0%    /tmp
# > /dev/wd0h     1.8G   297M   1.4G    17%    /home
# > /dev/fd0a     1.4M   636K   787K    44%    /mnt
# >
# > FreeBSD/OpenBSD and GNU fileutils support this flag already, but does
# > anyone know if this flag would violate POSIX or SUS?
#
# SUSv2 doesn't define -h or -H flags for either of these utilities.
#
# > Patches for df including the manpage included (just a draft), I also
# > added -g (display statistics in gigabyte block counts) just for
# > completeness.
#
# There's also a -H for "metric" k/M/G/T instead of power-of-two values.
#
# Also, are your patches based on the FreeBSD changes, or totally new
# (it'd be good form to credit the changes to their correct origin).
#
# Simon.
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