Re: Device names too long for df

[Bob Proulx]

Thomas Stewart wrote:
> Once more than half a dozen devices are in the system, the readout is less 
> easy
> to read, e.g. 
> $ df -h
> Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
>                        19G  6.8G   12G  38% /
> /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
>                        82G   60G   22G  74% /mnt/store
> 
> I have made a patch to add a --wide (-w) option to df, so that the
> "Filesystem" column has more space.

I don't have a system to test this on but I am curious what the -P
output looks like in your case.

`-P'
`--portability'
     Use the POSIX output format.  This is like the default format
     except for the following:

       1. The information about each filesystem is always printed on
          exactly one line; a mount device is never put on a line by
          itself.  This means that if the mount device name is more
          than 20 characters long (e.g., for some network mounts), the
          columns are misaligned.

       2. The labels in the header output line are changed to conform
          to POSIX.

Thanks
Bob