a df option question

Thu, 13 Jun 2002 14:43:49 -0400

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 
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