Linux and data storage?

[Karen Lewellen]

Again you are incorrect.
kwota was far more informative than du was in any case.
again you are not knowledgeable as to shellworld's specific setup to 
contribute to this in my opinion.
Its my data, so my opinion is what matters in the long run grin.
Karen

On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote:

> 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
>
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