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[Iain Gray]

> > df -h
>
I would be happy with just df anything
>
> >> 3. How do you find out the disk usage of a directory?
> >
> > du -hx --max-depth=1
>
> The problem is that this a really ambiguous question (your answer is
> nonportable but will work, as long as subdirectories are not wanted). I
> could equally well have answered
>
> ls -ld | cut -d\  -f 5
>
> or (nonportable, with the same effect but no dependence on the number or
> ordering of fields in ls output)
>
> find . -maxdepth 0 -printf '%s\n'

Or in linux world
du -s /dirname
just shows you the complete dir and all subdirs

Again ANYTHING!! (he pleads brokenly) would do. Hell, so long as it
has a d in it I'd probably cry with relief.


>
> > but i got an question for you as well :
> >
> > how do you mount (from Linux) a root of a DFS(Microsoft)?
>
> Pass, I don't do Microsoft. (I'm not even sure how to expand the DFS
> acronym, this being MS it probably means something strange; if it's
> Distributed File System then you use mount(8) and/or smbmount(8)...)

Eeww! no idea - whats a DFS? I thought it was a furniture store with
dodgy adverts.

Iain
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