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From: "Boyd Roberts" <boyd@planete.net>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?
Date: Fri, 20 Oct 2000 23:51:12 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <000e01c03adf$dd3f3900$b6c784c3@cybercable.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0010201707050.24294-100000@weyl.math.psu.edu>

From: Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Sent: Friday, October 20, 2000 11:44 PM
Subject: Re: [9fans] Df command in Plan9?


>
> I've definitely never heard of du(1) on device doing an equivalent of
> df(1) - for one thing, it would require ability to guess the filesystem
> type and parse the superblock. Even GNU didn't try _that_ feature.

du works on plain files and directory trees.

df works on file-systems.





  reply	other threads:[~2000-10-20 21:51 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2000-10-20 20:31 Russ Cox
2000-10-20 21:44 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-20 21:51   ` Boyd Roberts [this message]
2000-10-21  0:37   ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-21 10:13     ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22  0:13       ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22  0:25         ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 15:41           ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-23  9:02           ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-23 10:30             ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-24 11:37             ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-25  8:30               ` Douglas A. Gwyn
2000-10-26  4:54                 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-26  5:44                   ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 11:34         ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 15:59           ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:43             ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-23  5:06             ` Boyd Roberts
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2000-10-22 17:06 forsyth
2000-10-23  2:23 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 11:04 forsyth
2000-10-22 12:49 ` Boyd Roberts
2000-10-22 13:16 ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-22 16:07   ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:31     ` Alexander Viro
2000-10-23  2:07       ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-22 16:05 ` Rick Hohensee
2000-10-20 21:51 presotto
2000-10-20 20:22 Mark C. Otto

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