Subject: Re: bug#36729: 27.0.50; Unclear total in directory listing

From: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 2020 16:00:08 +0200

Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]> writes:

> The first line of a directory listing reads
>
>   total used in directory 71752 available 65.2 GiB
>
> where it is a mystery what the first number represents. Often it is
> 512-byte blocks, which is confusing and not very useful, and cannot
> easily be compared with the 'available' number (which is crystal
> clear).
>
> It has always been thus, but previously the 'available' number was
> itself somewhat obscure so the first number didn't stand out.

Hm...  My buffers read:

But that's because I have:

(setq dired-listing-switches "-alh")

It's confusing that it's doing the human-readable bit on the available
but not on the "used" with the default "-al".

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