From owner-freebsd-current Wed Jul 5 10:58: 4 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from jade.chc-chimes.com (jade.chc-chimes.com [216.28.46.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A7FD937BC0C; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 10:58:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from billf@jade.chc-chimes.com) Received: by jade.chc-chimes.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 0D98E1C64; Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:58:02 -0400 (EDT) Date: Wed, 5 Jul 2000 13:58:02 -0400 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 Message-ID: <20000705135801.P4034@jade.chc-chimes.com> References: <20000704154725.A445@argon.gryphonsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from blaz@amis.net on Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 09:56:43PM +0200 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 3.3-STABLE i386 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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-current" in the body of the message