bug#44273: "total used in directory 19 available 5.2 GiB"

[Richard Stallman]

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  > Given that the units seem to be in general unknowable, what would you
  > suggest to say in that tooltip?

On GNU/Linux with GNU ls, the first number is measured in 1k blocks
unless options specify a different block size.

The second number is whatever is in the string that
get-free-disk-space returns.  That function has a hook with which you
can customize how to represent the amount of free space.


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