Re: question about dired-mode

[Mathias Megyei]

On Sat, 2007-08-11 at 11:19 -0700, zhiliang.ma@gmail.com wrote:
> Hi all emacs users,
> I like emacs dired-mode very much, but one thing still annoys me. A
> dired-mode buffer looks like this:
> 
> /cis/home/zma/research:
> total used in directory 104K available 9378071488
> drwxr-xr-x  2 zma zma 4.0K Aug 11 02:33 BIRN
> 
> I have put this in my .emacs to make file size more readable
> 
> (setq dired-listing-switches "-lAh")

IWith the following lines in my .emacs

(setq dired-free-space-program "df")
(setq directory-free-space-args "-m")

I get the free space on the partition in question in MBs:

  /home/mathias:
  total used in directory 90020 available 26263

Mathias