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From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
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To: bde@zeta.org.au, frank@news.via.nl
Subject: Re: more drives in iostat?
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>> Only 4 drives fit in 80 columns.  Actually, only 3 fit, because 4 take
>> exactly 80 columns and line wrap wastes 1 column.
>Hmm.. that is true. But mostly I work with xterms, which I can make as big
>as I like. Maybe it could be an option? -w for wide maybe? =)

It should scale to the number of columns and maybe have a -w or a -c columns
option for output to non-ttys.

>Maybe the msps could be skipped for scsi-disks? Ide can only handle 4 anyhow,
>and (at least for me) those columns are always 0.

ISTR making them sort of work for IDE disks, but they don't work now.  Also,
there are only 3 or 4 columns left for `sps' but 5 columns are often needed
for modern disks (5 MB/s ~ 10000 sps).  The first `sps' column runs into the
`tout' column above 500 KB/s (%4d formatting with no space) and the other
`sps' columns become misaligned above 5 MB/s (%4d formatting with a space).

Bruce