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Date:      Tue, 04 Jul 2000 22:34:41 +0200
From:      Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za>
To:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
Cc:        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:  <21059.962742881@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:47:25 -0400." <20000704154725.A445@argon.gryphonsoft.com> 

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On Tue, 04 Jul 2000 15:47:25 -0400, Will Andrews wrote:

> 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.

Okay, then.  Let me be more specific.  How is the notion of "total
space" useful? :-)

Ciao,
Sheldon.


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