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

From: Michael Albinus <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 07 Oct 2020 18:40:23 +0200

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

>> That's right. It may be blocks, sectors, KiB, or baker's
>> dozens. There may be ways to influence the unit (switches,
>> environment variables) but not portably, and there is no way of
>> telling what effects such efforts take, if any.
>
> Doesn't the result come from get-free-disk-space, which calls
> file-system-info, which reports in known units?  Or am I confused?

file-system-info does not give you information about used file sizes in
a directory. Something which I've missed also in Tramp.

Best regards, Michael.