Re: [ELPA] New package: dired-du

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Yuri Khan <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 27 May 2017 01:12:07 +0700
> Cc: Tino Calancha <address@hidden>, Emacs developers <address@hidden>
> 
> On Sat, May 27, 2017 at 12:53 AM, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> >> Would it be useful to extract the Lisp replacement of du as a separate
> >> library, or does that raise too many questions about cache management?
> >
> > Why not use get-free-disk-space, which would make the library much
> > more portable?
> 
> How does get-free-disk-space help calculate disk space usage by a
> directory?

It doesn't for that job, but one could use directory-files-recursively
and file-attributes.