df produces broken output on machines with long device names and lots of disk

[James Troup]

lilo-installer's postinst dies on a DL380 I just tried to install it on. The
root cause is this:

Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/cciss/host0/target0/part1563990864 334724 535007028 0% /target

The lack of space between the filesystem name and number of blocks causes lilo
to try and install ont to part1563990864 :-)
Maybe this is a bug in busybox's df? In any event it'll also be much less of an
issue in hoary since we no longer user devfs.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

We still use devfs paths in Hoary, just not devfs itself.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

Definitely a busybox-cvs df bug:

            bb_printf("%-21s%9s ", device,
                      make_human_readable_str(s.f_blocks, s.f_bsize, df_disp_hr));

That should clearly be "%-20s %9s ". I've sent a patch upstream, and am fixing
it for Hoary now.

[Colin Watson (cjwatson)]

busybox-cvs (20040623-1ubuntu3) hoary; urgency=low

  * Fix df output on large filesystems with long device names (closes:
    Ubuntu #4875).

 -- Colin Watson <email address hidden> Wed, 22 Dec 2004 05:22:20 +0000