From owner-freebsd-current Tue Jul 4 12:50: 0 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mercury.mich.com (mercury.mich.com [64.79.64.32]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0F3E537B99E; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 12:49:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from will@almanac.yi.org) Received: from argon.gryphonsoft.com (pm014-046.dialup.bignet.net [64.79.82.158]) by mercury.mich.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA04069; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:49:25 -0400 Received: by argon.gryphonsoft.com (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 9DCE51987; Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:47:25 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 4 Jul 2000 15:47:25 -0400 From: Will Andrews To: Sheldon Hearn Cc: Will Andrews , FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does Message-ID: <20000704154725.A445@argon.gryphonsoft.com> References: <20000703212151.B94372@argon.gryphonsoft.com> <17501.962719606@axl.ops.uunet.co.za> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <17501.962719606@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>; from sheldonh@uunet.co.za on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:06:46PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 04:06:46PM +0200, Sheldon Hearn wrote: > My only objection is that it seems to produce useless values. Can you > think of a use for these grand totals? They are helpful for monitoring total space; I would use them in administrative scripts to watch my space. Granted, this job could be done by shell scripts.. but I think it would be useful in df(1). -- Will Andrews GCS/E/S @d- s+:+>+:- a--->+++ C++ UB++++ P+ L- E--- W+++ !N !o ?K w--- ?O M+ V-- PS+ PE++ Y+ PGP+>+++ t++ 5 X++ R+ tv+ b++>++++ DI+++ D+ G++>+++ e->++++ h! r-->+++ y? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message