Subject: Re: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

From: Jean Louis <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Nov 2020 21:57:05 +0300

* Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> [2020-11-01 18:22]:
> This actually means that this value provides information that is not
> directly available in the file sizes.  So it is useful.
> 
> I find the notion that we should remove from display a useful quantity
> just because it might be tricky to interpret in some situation,
> especially by people who are not proficient in this stuff.  'ls' shows
> it, and Dired isn't supposed to lose stuff that 'ls -al' provides.

Instead of blocks users can set it up "human readable" with ls -alh
option or similar:

dired-listing-switches is a variable defined in ‘dired.el’.
Its value is "-gohl --group-directories-first"
Original value was "-al"

  You can customize this variable.

Then there is more practical display:

  total used in directory 1.4G available 24.8 GiB