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KrackLot

2004-04-15, 4:51 pm

Hi all,
Some of the commands in Linux are short and must of had their names derived
from somewhere. To show disk usage, you use df. What does it stand for?
Thanks,
KrackLot
Alexander Dalloz

2004-04-15, 5:44 pm

On Thu, 15 Apr 2004 15:48:29 -0500 KrackLot wrote:

> Hi all,
> Some of the commands in Linux are short and must of had their names derived
> from somewhere. To show disk usage, you use df. What does it stand for?
> Thanks,
> KrackLot


diskspace filesystem?

Alexander


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Scott Lurndal

2004-04-15, 6:39 pm

KrackLot <Krack@dev-dc.org> writes:
>Hi all,
>Some of the commands in Linux are short and must of had their names derived
>from somewhere. To show disk usage, you use df. What does it stand for?
>Thanks,
>KrackLot


Disk Free

(as in, how much Disk is Free).

scott
Jan Gerrit Kootstra

2004-04-18, 10:42 am

"KrackLot" <Krack@dev-dc.org> schreef in bericht
news:Xns94CC1284E3808Krackdevdcorg@216.196.97.131...
> Hi all,
> Some of the commands in Linux are short and must of had their names

derived
> from somewhere. To show disk usage, you use df. What does it stand for?
> Thanks,
> KrackLot


KrackLot,


diskfree, this can be checked by man df and look at the first page of the
manual


Regards,


Jan Gerrit


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