a df option question

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Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:18:43 -0700


DOH!!!!

slr

On Thursday 13 June 2002 12:07 pm, Lynn David Newton wrote:
> No more responses necessary. See below.
>
>   slr> nor have i, my RH7.1, 7.2 and 7.3 boxes all report:
>   slr> df -b MB
>   slr> df: invalid option -- b
>
> That was an upper case -B.
>
> Someone sent me a copy of a df man page, said to be
> from Mandrake 8.2, that does indeed document -B MB as
> being valid. The relevant part of the man page says:
>
>        -B, --block-size=SIZE use SIZE-byte blocks
>
>        ...
>
>        SIZE may be (or may be an integer optionally followed  by)
>        one  of	following:  kB	1000,  K  1024,	 MB  1,000,000, M
>        1,048,576, and so on for G, T, P, E, Z, Y.
>
> Interesting. And certainly unportable.