GNU bug report logs - #44273
"total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: 積丹尼 Dan Jacobson <jidanni <at> jidanni.org>

Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2020 07:21:02 UTC

Severity: minor

Tags: patch, wontfix

Merged with 36729

Found in version 27.0.50

Done: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Richard Stallman <rms <at> gnu.org>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: mattiase <at> acm.org, jidanni <at> jidanni.org, stefankangas <at> gmail.com, larsi <at> gnus.org, juri <at> linkov.net, 44273 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2020 00:47:08 -0400

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  > Given that the units seem to be in general unknowable, what would you
  > suggest to say in that tooltip?

On GNU/Linux with GNU ls, the first number is measured in 1k blocks
unless options specify a different block size.

The second number is whatever is in the string that
get-free-disk-space returns.  That function has a hook with which you
can customize how to represent the amount of free space.


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