Today I saw a Tweet by Marius Gedminas,
who wrote about lfs,
a replacement for df.
It is one of the many tools, implemented in Rust, which offer some more features compared to their bash alternatives.
What about no
When I tried to install it, I just saw the following error message:
❯ cargo install lfs
Updating crates.io index
Downloaded lfs v2.6.0
error: failed to parse manifest at `/home/jugmac00/.cargo/registry/src/github.com-1ecc6299db9ec823/lfs-2.6.0/Cargo.toml`
Caused by:
feature `strip` is required
The package requires the Cargo feature called `strip`, but that feature is not stabilized in this version of Cargo (1.56.0 (4ed5d137b 2021-10-04)).
Consider trying a newer version of Cargo (this may require the nightly release).
See https://doc.rust-lang.org/nightly/cargo/reference/unstable.html#profile-strip-option for more information about the status of this feature.
While the error message is pretty nice, it lacks one important thing: “How do I update Cargo?”
But first I checked the currently installed version:
❯ cargo --version
cargo 1.56.0 (4ed5d137b 2021-10-04)
Googling for update cargo did not really help a lot,
as the results mostly referred to the cargo update command.
What about rustup
After a while I found the correct command:
rustup update
After running the above command,
cargo was updated and I finally was able to install lfs.
❯ cargo --version
cargo 1.64.0 (387270bc7 2022-09-16)
❯ cargo install lfs
Updating crates.io index
Installing lfs v2.6.0
Downloaded argh_shared v0.1.9
...
Compiling lfs v2.6.0
Finished release [optimized] target(s) in 24.19s
Installing /home/jugmac00/.cargo/bin/lfs
Installed package `lfs v2.6.0` (executable `lfs`)
Still here?
Right, why would you install lfs when df is available?
SNAPS! :-)
Try to run df on any Ubuntu system (< 22.04) and you will see a lot of noise from installed Snaps.
lfs on the other hand filters Snap out by default.
Update
2022-10-24
My colleague Oliver Grawert pointed out that beginning with 22.04,
df filters Snaps, too!