a df option question

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:30:16 -0700

On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:59:26AM -0700, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> 
> I have a couple of students using Mandrake on laptops
> who reported to me that df -B MB is a valid option for
> df on their system. They even supply output showing
> what it does.
> 
> I've never heard of such an option in any version of
> Unix I've ever used. Mandrake is based on Red Hat,
> which uses the GNU tools for all the most standard
> utilities, right?
> 
> Does anyone know anything about this? I'd love to see a
> df(1) man page off a Mandrake system.

I'm using a stock copy of GNU's fileutils on my LFS system -- df -B MB is
not a valid option, and neither is just plain 'ol df -B. Mandrake or RedHat
must have patched them (like they _always_ seem to do...).

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