From owner-freebsd-bugs Wed Jul 5 11: 0: 8 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org Received: from freefall.freebsd.org (freefall.FreeBSD.ORG [204.216.27.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CDD8437BD52 for ; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Received: (from gnats@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.9.3/8.9.2) id LAA51153; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gnats@FreeBSD.org) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 11:00:04 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200007051800.LAA51153@freefall.freebsd.org> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Cc: From: Bill Fumerola Subject: Re: bin/19635: add -c for grand total to df(1), like du(1) does Reply-To: Bill Fumerola Sender: owner-freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org The following reply was made to PR bin/19635; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Bill Fumerola To: Blaz Zupan 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 Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:58:02 -0400 On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:56:43PM +0200, Blaz Zupan wrote: > Ok, so let's say my / is 100% full, my /usr is 50% full and my /var is 20% > full. What would the total number tell me? That my file systems are 56.6% > full. That tells me nothing about my root file system running out of space, so > this number is completely useless to me. I have to agree with Sheldon, where > is the use to this number? If you would use the "total" field to monitor diskusage on / then you get what you deserve. Think about doing something like $ df -c/disk0 /disk1 /disk2 ... /diskX To just monitor a cluster of disks. -- Bill Fumerola - Network Architect / Computer Horizons Corp - CHIMES e-mail: billf@chimesnet.com / billf@FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message