Bug 79993 – df shows weird output on long devicenames

• Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2005-01-29 13:43:46 UTC]

Currently using coreutils-5.2.1-r2 and the 'df' output is a bit weird.

See the attached patch which was posted on the bug-coreutils mailinglist (http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-02/msg00103.html)

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. emerge '>=sys-apps/coreutils-5.2.1-r2'
2. df /var
Actual Results:  
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/discs/disc0/part7
                      2.9G  275M  2.5G  11% /var


Expected Results:  
Filesystem                 Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/discs/disc0/part7     2.9G  275M  2.5G  11% /var

[Comment 1 Christian Heim (RETIRED) 2005-01-29 13:45:24 UTC]

Created attachment 49881 [details, diff]
Adds -w / --wide for long devicenames (e.g. like /dev/discs/disc3/part13)

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2005-01-29 20:51:38 UTC]

as pointed out in that thread, `df -P` already does this pretty much

there's also talk of changing `df` to work automagically like `ls`, so lets just let them figure it out