[Rule-list] detecting hard drive space from slinky

Devon devon at tuxfan.homeip.net
Wed Apr 10 01:51:13 EEST 2002


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On Monday 08 April 2002 04:38 pm, Rodolfo J. Paiz wrote:
> At 4/7/2002 10:23 PM -0500, you wrote:
> >Once the drives are partitioned, it's easier.
> ># df -h
> >Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> >/dev/hda2             986M  667M  269M  72% /
> >/dev/hda1              29M  4.7M   22M  18% /boot
>
> You might want to stick to "df -m" so that you always get megabytes.
> "-h" is human-readable, but will report "1G" instead of "1024M" for
> which you need to compensate. At least, that's how I understood it...
> (famous last words).

Good point. I've been testing on small drives, and this hadn't bitten me. 
(Yet) :)

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