[PATCH] Support for thresholds in du(1)

[Garrett Cooper]

On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Jason A. Spiro <jasonspiro4 at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 9:30 PM, jhell <jhell at 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