From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from ms-smtp-01.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.40] helo=ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com) by speech.braille.uwo.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CC1Bh-000542-00 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 15:29:30 -0400 Received: from tomass (cs24322-126.austin.rr.com [24.243.22.126]) by ms-smtp-01-eri0.texas.rr.com (8.12.10/8.12.7) with ESMTP id i8RJTQYm019540 for ; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:29:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from stivers_t by tomass with local (Exim 4.34) id 1CC1Be-0002Ot-3i for speakup@braille.uwo.ca; Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:29:26 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 14:29:25 -0500 To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca Message-ID: <20040927192925.GE3843@tomass.dyndns.org> Mail-Followup-To: speakup@braille.uwo.ca References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-action=pgp-signed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-Request-PGP: http://tomass.dyndns.org/~stivers_t/pubkey.asc X-Uptime: 3 days 5 hours 25 minutes 10 seconds User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6+20040818i From: Thomas Stivers X-Virus-Scanned: Symantec AntiVirus Scan Engine Subject: Re: Linux and data storage? X-BeenThere: speakup@braille.uwo.ca X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Id: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:29:30 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Sep 27 2004 at 12:16:18PM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote: > You mention using du -ms to find out how much data you have. What is the > difference between that and using df -k . ? You use df to tell you how much space is used and free in a partition. OTOH du should be used to tell how much space the files and directories within a directory use. I.E. when I do "du -h" in my home dir I find out how much space my home directory is using. When I do "df -h ." I find out how much of the file system containing the current directory is being used and how much is free. Check the man pages to find out what all the options do. HTH - -- "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan Thomas Stivers e-mail: stivers_t@tomass.dyndns.org -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBWGoV5JK61UXLur0RAuULAJ4vULzj+dbFP9JJYWMBFI3859Ti3QCfXAWJ aaLd0RBd4fmm7Tddlwnegjc= =9vDr -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----