From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 5 05:53:55 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECAAB1065672 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:53:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from yanefbsd@gmail.com) Received: from mail-px0-f183.google.com (mail-px0-f183.google.com [209.85.216.183]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C0F1C8FC17 for ; Fri, 5 Feb 2010 05:53:55 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pxi13 with SMTP id 13so694325pxi.3 for ; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:53:55 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=xt+PLRhTmuMODJn5XTUezEoI/llp6BO1kaFOjFHO72c=; b=YabqUyzosg5txjk2AX/5WK4XRFYShwVl2GDctcHfu43YkzlsX/8ZWvenBY2Iuv1rNP hFbEhnKYqPgLvEC2ysYdw/jCMRHsqCEbJ0roazQwoB8VjaTb+S2S/eJQ3QTJW05vGMWO U+3h5gzRiCMmItk4KW65KVx1xvCLtHRBuZ7RI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=IozGRbPQ2WknYgPFS1aOVKkOxyNE7OU+i2WSFjir7vmDxbhWrqgVQbZV48qJN4bDt3 fvqgfuIMEhix/ncV/yLXY4h+5QwMtd2wB3g59uJZjIi5H/s1JaTWuawqTfeEmdLutwIM h72nwwoatGC+zr5LiP98rxT8go0ikxd/XWmV4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.142.250.19 with SMTP id x19mr1417353wfh.23.1265347902936; Thu, 04 Feb 2010 21:31:42 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <200902251724.40212.fbsd.hackers@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20100204115505.GA5272@tops.skynet.lt> Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 21:31:42 -0800 Message-ID: <7d6fde3d1002042131i3eb08f22s86a1c94be0a563d@mail.gmail.com> From: Garrett Cooper To: "Jason A. Spiro" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: jhell , Gleb Kurtsou , Ed Schouten , FreeBSD Hackers , eitanadlerlist@gmail.com, Xin LI Subject: Re: [PATCH] Support for thresholds in du(1) X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Feb 2010 05:53:56 -0000 On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jason A. Spiro wrot= e: > On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:30 PM, jhell wrote: > >> I like it!. > > It looks like a really useful option. =A0Though 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. =A0But 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). =A0(Baobab > requires Gnome, and KDirStat requires KDE.) =A0What 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 ema= il >> 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? =A0Do 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