df 'untidy'

[Sam Halliday]

hi there,

i noticed when i switched my GNU/Linux machine to the devfs that 'df'
doesnt give very pretty output when called, as the new device names
under devfs are quite long... eg

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7
                       3028080   1539484   1488596  51% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8
                      62230468  12263512  49966956  20% /home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6
                       1035660     32820    897620   4% /tmp
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3
                       3842408    767596   2879624  22% /mnt/lfs-tim
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4
                       1130568        32   1073104   1% /mnt/ext2
tmpfs                   128660         0    128660   0% /dev/shm

the -P option is better... but obviously lacking the visual alignment
Filesystem         1024-blocks      Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part7   3028080   1539488   1488592      51% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part8  62230468  12263516  49966952      20% 
/home
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part6   1035660     32820    897620       4% 
/tmp
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part3   3842408    788360   2858860      22% 
/mnt/lfs-tim
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4   1130568        32   1073104       1% 
/mnt/ext2
tmpfs                   128660         0    128660       0% /dev/shm

i personally think devfs is a brilliant idea, but the names!! agghh the names!!

i usually work with a 142 character-wide terminal, would it maybe be possible
to allow 'df' to detect this and expand the view accordingly? (short of renaming
the devices, i suppose this is all that can be done)

i see fileutils is renamed to 'coreutils' for the next release, has this
'prettification' been considered in the upgrade?

thanks in advance!
Sam
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