[FEAT] Get the total disk writes for the current session. about fastfetch HOT 8 CLOSED

A new flag --diskio-detect-total has been added to support the required feature.

$ ./fastfetch -s diskio --diskio-detect-total --pipe
Disk IO (APPLE SSD AP1024R Media): 64.17 GiB (R) - 15.35 GiB (W)

Worth noting that the result applies to physical disks, not partitions.

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There is DiskIO. You may try it with fastfetch -s diskio

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There is DiskIO. You may try it with fastfetch -s diskio

That's great, but I see that only prints the the current B/s instead of total Bytes.

Iostat does report the total kB_wrtn without needing sudo rights, I don't know how difficult it would be to implement that feature into fastfetch.

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DiskIO was implemented by calcuating total-bytes growth rate
. I think I can implement an option for DiskIO to let it report total bytes.

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DiskIO was implemented by calcuating total-bytes growth rate . I think I can implement an option for DiskIO to let it report total bytes.

Thank you, in the meantime I'm using iostat with this:

iostat -m -d | awk 'NR==4 { print $7" MiB Written" }

Which does print exactly that info.

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You can embed this command into fastfetch

{
    "key": "Whatever",
    "type": "command",
    "text": "iostat -m -d | awk 'NR==4 { print $7\" MiB Written\" }'"
}

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{
    "key": "Whatever",
    "type": "command",
    "text": "iostat -m -d | awk 'NR==4 { print $7\" MiB Written\" }'"
}

This also totally works for me, thank you so much for that!

I will leave the decision on whether to close this issue and not implement the feature to you, I'm very happy either way.

Edit: Ended up replacing the Uptime part for the custom script that does print the uptime info as well as the total MiB wirtten:

    {
    "key": "Uptime",
    "type": "command",
    "text": "( uptime -p && iostat -m -d ) | awk 'NR==1 { printf $2\" \" $3\" \" $4\" \" $5} NR==5 { printf \" (\"$7\" MiB written)\" }'"
    },

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fastfetch -s diskio --diskio-detect-total
``

A new flag --diskio-detect-total has been added to support the required feature.

$ ./fastfetch -s diskio --diskio-detect-total --pipe
Disk IO (APPLE SSD AP1024R Media): 64.17 GiB (R) - 15.35 GiB (W)

Worth noting that the result applies to physical disks, not partitions.

Great, but is it possible to add it to the json config? I tried "diskio-detect-total", and that did not work.

If I use the flag it gets printed at the end of everything.

edit: I added it as a embedded command lol:

    {
    "key": "Physical Disk Total IO",
    "type": "command",
    "text": "fastfetch -s diskio --diskio-detect-total | awk '{ print $4 \" \"$5 \" \"$6 \" \"$7 \" \"$8 \" \"$9 \" \"$10 }'"
    },

edit2: FIgured it out, it has to be in the json config like this:

    {
     "key": "Physical Disk Total IO",
     "type": "diskio",
     "DetectTotal": true
    }

I changed the key name to a more proper name as well.

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