[Sunhelp] df (aliases)

[Erik Parker]

Just as a good system administration tip..

You should never alias an application with options
to that applications name. like.. many do 'ls -al' 
to ls... but they should just make it to 'l' or something.

I've even seen some idiots who have linked things ls 'ls -ald'
to ln.. obviously not someone to intelligent if the NEVER have
a need for ln, and had never heard of it.

Anyway, just a tip. 

On Tue, 2 Nov 1999, Melinda Taylor wrote:

> 
> 
> Sorry I should've said df is aliased to 'df -k'
> 
> On Mon, 1 Nov 1999, Phil Brutsche wrote:
> 
> > A long time ago, in a galaxy far, far way, someone said...
> > 
> > > When I do a df on my disks I find that the kbytes used
> > > and available do not add up to the total ie:
> > > 
> > > /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s5    2071852 1844110   20557    99%    /data4
> > > 
> > > but 1844110+20557=1864667 a diif of 207 Meg...
> > > 
> > > Why is this?
> > 
> > I don't have Solaris anywhere near me to look (my Sun runs NetBSD), but I
> > would think that 'df' is reporting free inodes rather than disk blocks.
> > 
> > -- 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------
> > Phil Brutsche					pbrutsch at creighton.edu
> > 
> > "There are two things that are infinite; Human stupidity and the
> > universe. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
> > 
> > 
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Erik Parker
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