Re: FW: HD Partition

[J Horacio MG <homega@vlc.servicom.es>]

Brad dixit:
~> On Thu, 10 Jun 1999, J Horacio MG wrote:
~> 
~> > Make `df /usr', `df /home', `df /var',... in your current installation,
~> 
~> Did you mean 'du -s' instead of 'df'? df will only tell you how much the
~> entire partition is using, sort of useless unless you're simply resizing
~> partitions without changing the file system layout. 'du -s' will tell you
~> how much space the named director(y|ies) use(s).

Well, since I already have my filesystem "scattered" into different
partitions, `df' is useful.  But yes, I should have said `du /dir' (for
every directory we want to keep in a separate partition) for someone whose
system is all in one partition.

Shame `du' won't give any percentages at all.

Regards
-- 
Horacio
homega@vlc.servicom.es
Valencia - ESPAÑA