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Yes, Luke was just point out that -m is not available on BSD.

But, you probably do have:

du --help

You should check from your prompt on shell world, but I suspect you can
just do:

du -s

and get a result in kilobytes. The -m just gives the result in
megabytes..

But, having also myself just looked at du --help, I can now ammend
something else I just said a minute ago. Instead of subtracting a total
for mail, do:

du -s -x mail/

to exclude the mail directory from the calculations.

So, get anything better with these commands?

Karen Lewellen writes:
> Janina,
> We shall not see quite yet grin.  It seems that there is no -m option in 
> our edition of the "du" program.
>  I ran it in this way:
> du -ms
> I was told that  following:
> illegal usage du -m
> with a list of other command line options.
> I have asked our system administrator how the program works for us.
> Karen