[Novalug] PS Re: boot trick??

[Jon LaBadie]

On Sun, Dec 13, 2009 at 04:09:43PM -0600, Beartooth wrote:
> On Sun, 13 Dec 2009, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> 
> > Okay, I must be pretty thick here, as I'm not understanding.
> >
> > It's as simple as typing "df -m" and cutting'n pasting the 
> > output in e-mail.
> 
> [btth at BBB ~]$ df -m
> Filesystem           1M-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted 
> on
> /dev/mapper/vg_bbb-lv_root
>                          148009     22002    124505  16% /
> /dev/sdb1                  194       171        14  93% /boot
> tmpfs                      502         1       501   1% /dev/shm
> [btth at BBB ~]$
> 
>  	Incidentally, why is that better than df -h?
> 

Better is in the eye of the beholder.

-m gives a consistant unit to make comparisons easier.

-h gives more consistant width columns by changing the units.

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