From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ray Olszewski Subject: Re: how to assess occupied space Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2002 12:21:53 -0700 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <5.1.0.14.1.20020915122022.0227fd90@celine> References: <5.1.0.14.1.20020915120612.0228fd90@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Mike Dresser Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org At 03:16 PM 9/15/02 -0400, Mike Dresser wrote: >On Sun, 15 Sep 2002, Ray Olszewski wrote: > > > >Disk usage, according to the man pages. But in a way, directory use is > > >accurate too. > > > > Where did you find this? It's not in my man page for du. (Just curious.) > >DESCRIPTION > Summarize disk usage of each FILE, recursively for direc > tories. Oh yes, that's in my man page too. I just don't read it as defining what the abbreviation means ... merely as describing what the command does. Thanks for the clarification. -- -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo Palo Alto, California, USA ray@comarre.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs