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

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 15:16:02 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <[email-masked]>
> Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2019 12:15:58 +0200
> 
> 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).

Feel free to suggest a clarification in the doc string of 'dired'.