[mythtv] Mythweb tweak - show disk space in GB?

[TerribleTadpole]

You could put a rule around it to scale the value to MB, GB, TB, or PB (or
higher) to keep the value within the 1 to 999 range and display to three
significant digits.

That will adapt to everybody's setup for a few years.



On Mon, 12 Nov 2018, 6:41 PM Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk wrote:

> On Sun, 2018-11-11 at 21:53 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 3:01 AM Ian Campbell <ijc at hellion.org.uk>
> > wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2018-11-10 at 12:45 -0600, Richard Shaw wrote:
> > > > I'm not good with perl/php otherwise I would give it a try, but
> > > since
> > > > Mythweb is not going away in V30, what would it take to change
> > > the
> > > > backend status from MB to GB... With HDTV and modern disks I
> > > don't
> > > > think it make sense to report MB anymore and it's difficult to
> > > read
> > > > when I have a 3TB main drive and a dedicated 2TB drive for
> > > > recordings.
> > >
> > > I think the code you want is actually in
> > > mythtv/programs/mythbackend/httpstatus.cpp and is just proxied by
> > > mythweb so lack of Perl/php shouldn't be a barrier.
> >
> > A bit closer... I found the bit shifts ">>10" and changed them to
> > ">>20" for GB but still need to find where to change "MB" to "GB"...
>
> It's a bit further down the same file:
>
>         int nUsed    = g.attribute("used" , "0" ).toInt();
>
>         ...
>
>         os << "            <li>Space Used: ";
>         sRep = c.toString(nUsed) + " MB";
>         os << sRep << "</li>\r\n";
>
> If it were me to avoid them getting out of sync I would move the >>10
> and the naming of the units next to each other, by making the
> attributed and nUsed and friends use bytes as the units, and doing the
> shift in the latter bit of code right where the "MB" (or "GB") was
> appended, but maybe that's just me and perhaps you are looking for the
> smallest change to make.
>
> Ian.
>
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