Date: 08 Jul 2000 02:22:08 +0200 From: Cyrille Lefevre <clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net> To: Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> Cc: Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does Message-ID: <r995cvyn.fsf@pc166.gits.fr> In-Reply-To: Sheldon Hearn's message of "Tue, 04 Jul 2000 22:34:41 %2B0200" References: <21059.962742881@axl.ops.uunet.co.za>
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Sheldon Hearn <sheldonh@uunet.co.za> writes: > 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? :-) statistics for backup tapes needed. for instance, at work, there is a big restructuration of departements. so, there are 10 gigs (about 300 GB) to move from servers to others. of course, I use some kind of awk scripts to do the same things. but, under FreeBSD, I saw that du has a -c option to do that job. why df couln't have the same option to do the same job ? for every scripts I write, I do it the more portable as possible I can. but if I can optimize the job, I'll do it. another way to say that is : how is it possible you don't like this option to df for any reason, while you have accepted the same option to du ? Cyrille. -- home:mailto:clefevre@no-spam.citeweb.net Supprimer "no-spam." pour me repondre. work:mailto:Cyrille.Lefevre@no-spam.edf.fr Remove "no-spam." to answer me back. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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