Re: df patch: show inode usage and block usage at once

[Andrew Klyachkin]

Paul Eggert wrote:
> Andrew Klyachkin <address@hidden> writes:
> > The following patch adds `-I' option to df. With this option df produces
> > output similar to BSD's `df -i' - block usage and inode usage at once.
>
> A couple of dumb questions.  What does BSD's df -i output look like?
> And would it make sense simply to modify coreutils to match BSD's
> behavior, particularly if the BSD behavior is more useful?
>
> (I presume that coreutils is mimicking BSD's old behavior here, and
> BSD changed.)

df -i produces the following output on my FreeBSD boxes (FreeBSD 4.11, FreeBSD 
5.x, I don't have earlier versions right now)
$ df -i
Filesystem  1K-blocks    Used   Avail Capacity iused   ifree %iused  Mounted 
on
/dev/da0s1a    503966   81054  382596    17%    2325   61033    4%   /
devfs               1       1       0   100%       0       0  100%   /dev
/dev/da0s1f  14568394 9695040 3707884    72%  261883 1564419   14%   /usr
/dev/da0s1e    503966   32272  431378     7%     504   62854    1%   /var

I think BSD's behaviour is more useful for me :) but df is used in many 
scripts written by other people and if you change default behaviour of df, 
the scripts will fail. So I believe, it is more useful to add new option, 
instead of changing existing one.

-- 
Sincerely yours,
Andrew Klyachkin