On my Red Hat 7.3 box, df doesn't have a -B option. df --version gives: df (fileutils) 4.1 Written by Torbjorn Granlund, David MacKenzie, Larry McVoy, and Paul Eggert. Copyright (C) 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc. This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. Have them do that with the --version option and the --help output. What does it say? Alan On Thu, 13 Jun 2002 11:30:16 -0700 mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org wrote: 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...). -- Thomas "Mondoshawan" Tate mondoshawan@tank.dyndns.org http://tank.webhop.org ________________________________________________ See http://PLUG.phoenix.az.us/navigator-mail.shtml if your mail doesn't post to the list quickly and you use Netscape to write mail. PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss