Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:31:42 -0800 From: Garrett Cooper <yanefbsd@gmail.com> To: "Jason A. Spiro" <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> Cc: jhell <jhell@dataix.net>, Gleb Kurtsou <gleb.kurtsou@gmail.com>, Ed Schouten <ed@80386.nl>, FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, eitanadlerlist@gmail.com, Xin LI <delphij@delphij.net> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for thresholds in du(1) Message-ID: <7d6fde3d1002042131i3eb08f22s86a1c94be0a563d@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <c241693f1002042051i5ffed256rc8aea165e6553495@mail.gmail.com> References: <200902251724.40212.fbsd.hackers@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20100204115505.GA5272@tops.skynet.lt> <alpine.BSF.2.00.1002041255310.53562@pragry.qngnvk.ybpny> <c241693f1002042051i5ffed256rc8aea165e6553495@mail.gmail.com>
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On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:30 PM, jhell <jhell@dataix.net> wrote:
>
>> I like it!.
>
> It looks like a really useful option. Though if you really need to
> free up a lot of space, try a Freshmeat search[1] for [ disk usage ].
> It reveals many tools that look even better, including ncdu[2] which
> doesn't require Xorg. But I doubt that any of them ship with FreeBSD
> by default.
>
> I think the du manpage[3]'s "SEE ALSO" section should be revised to
> include ncdu(1), xdiskusage(1), baobab(1), and kdirstat(1). (Baobab
> requires Gnome, and KDirStat requires KDE.) What do you think?
>
>> This certainly reduces some piping but as long as it is not
>> integrated upstream it will only become more of a responsibility on
>> FreeBSD's behalf to maintain it. If someone has the original authors email
>> address I would say lets include him on this and see what he thinks.
>>
>> This would probably be the same for the pkill thread that I am involved in
>> to. CC'ing responsible party for that thread.
>
> What do you mean? Do you mean that maintaining half a dozen lines of
> extra code added to pkill(1) would be a burden for the FreeBSD team?
> :)
Shouldn't, but as I've learned before a few times -- it only takes
one line of code to fubar a one man-rockfight (or screw up a system
:)...)...
Cheers,
-Garrett
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