oh, that's nice to know too.
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Should the man file go in /usr/share/man/man8 or /usr/share/man8 ?

Ok, got it, it should be /usr/share/man/man8
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right you are, I didn't know either, now after testing the recent man page updates, I know the path by heart, /usr/share/man/man8
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inxi -D -F get size displayed twice.

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No, that's actually two outputs. The first is all hard drives total size, that's actually a guess and only works if: a: all drives are fully partitioned, no blank spots, and b: all partitions are mounted.

The specific hard drive info is per drive, in your case, you have one drive, so the totals and the specifics are the same.

By the way, I'd debating removing the missing /proc/mdstat output, I investigated slightly, and it appears that the kernel only has that file if the md module is there, which is in a package you install. This explains why only this system, that has a lot of extra packages like md raid installed, has that file that has no raid devices, but every other system I have tried here and your's, show no file. Damentz theorizes that this is the cause, and I think he is right, so given this is not in fact a default value, but added by the mdraid package, it may not be a good use of -F output space to show it if no file exists, but I believe I will show that if -R is explicitly triggered, then you certainly want that data since you asked for t.

So I think I'll do that change, barring anyone not wanting it. I was going to do a poll, but realized that this is really just a tech issue, ie, most people do not have mdraid installed, and do not need to see that they do not have it installed. That makes it different than say, -A, which most regular users would want, but many server admins might not, but more regular users.

But this will break the F being printing out each major line upper case trigger by default. But I think that's ok, no need to be fully linear.
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by the way, thanks for your very close observation of the output, that is how bugs and glitches etc are solved, even if some of them are actually features, but we never really know so it's better to note it than not.
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i wasn't aware of the hard drive total and separate output because i have a laptop. now it's clear and good thing i haven't annoyed you. inxi is a real help for me, i love many features of it, some of them are "hidden" in the -h section or in the changelog in the forum, like -pluo -Nxi or -tcm, even -r is very helpful. about the -R option, no use to display an error, good thing you changed it to show only if there is raid output. i think errors tend to unease users. thanks again for the help and patience.
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1.8.3: updated with much better raid error messages and info.

Here's how it works now:
-R if used specifically will always trigger an information line, either stating no raid devices found but raid module there, or no raid module thus no info.

-b will show nothing for no devices or no module loaded.
-F will show no devices but module loaded but not no module message
-v6 and less will show what -F shows
-v7 shows same as -Rxx

This covers all cases, when used explicitly R will always show users and sys admins precisely what they need to know re the raid status of the system, with -x or -xx depending. Without it no extra lines will be wasted if user does not have raid module, which is what this is actually about I finally realized. no module, no need to see that fact. Unless you want to, then -R will tell you that.

Ok, that's done now, let's see, this is 3rd major revision of R feature, let's see...
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maybe a more helpful message for missing sensors. instead of

maybe use

or something like this. i tried not to repeat too much words. hope you take it in consideration. have a good day.
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Sensors: None detected - is lm-sensors installed and configured?

In inxi 1.8.4, hope maintainers don't get annoyed.

will update live as soon as resolve stupid svn problem
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