[systemd-devel] when will mount / df get fixed?

[Tollef Fog Heen]

]] Reindl Harald 

> Am 02.10.2012 16:13, schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> > On Sat, 29.09.12 18:28, Reindl Harald (h.reindl at thelounge.net) wrote:
> > there is really no need to word your questions the way you are doing. I
> > will ban you from this mailing list if you don't stop being so dramatic
> > and insulting.
> 
> seems like people on mailing-lists are a little hypersensitive

Or maybe you're coming across as more aggressive than you intend.

[...]

> > To me it appears that the right fix is to patch df to coalesce the lines
> > of the various mount points of the same backing fs. it should just show
> > them as the rightmost column, comma separated, and if there are too
> > many, it should just allipsize the list instead of showing them all.
> 
> no need for any additional output
> df = DISK free
> mount = mounts

This is clearly not correct, given df shows the amount of free space on
file systems (or maybe subvolumes), not disks.  So, using the name of
the program as defined back in the 1970s isn't terribly useful.

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