Dunno about you, but my takeaway is that asking "how much space does X occupy" on a modern filesystem is a poorly specified question. Which means that there isn

Dunno about you, but my takeaway is that asking "how much space does X occupy" on a modern filesystem is a poorly specified question. Which means that there isn't a single answer. Which means that software should not try to report a single answer, unless there is additional context that fully disambiguates the question. And generally speaking, that last part will not be true, but programmers will think things like "well, they're looking at backups, so we are in this context...", which will sometimes be wrong. Stepping back a bit, this becomes partly a UX problem and partly a user education problem. Software alone is not going to be able to perfectly guess[1] why a human wants to know, so the human needs to learn enough to competently ask. Software can certainly help educate them, and I wish more software tried to level up the machine operator instead of trying to guess the right thing in the face of ignorance. [1] Don't mention "genai". Even if the robots get to the point that they are better than me at contextualizing this sort of thing, until they assume legal liability for outcomes, humans need to make decisions.