Subject: Re: Changes for getting a smaller daily output (was: CVS commit: src/etc)
To: None <tech-userlevel@NetBSD.org>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: tech-userlevel
Date: 12/13/2003 17:26:36
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 09:06:01AM +0100, Bernd Ernesti wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 07, 2003 at 04:20:18PM +0000, Perry E. Metzger wrote:
> > 
> > Module Name:	src
> > Committed By:	perry
> > Date:		Sun Dec  7 16:20:18 UTC 2003
> > 
> > Modified Files:
> > 	src/etc: daily
> > 
> > Log Message:
> > use -h ("human readable") instead of -k on nightly df
> 
> Another change which wasn't discussed before, but this time without an
> option to change it.
> 
> It looks nice, but it makes the whole output usless because it takes
> too much time to parse it if you are trying to check if some
> filesystem is runing out of space. And no, the Capacity field isn't
> a real one, because sometimes you have big filessytems where it is around
> 95-99% and you still have plenty of space left.

Using the daily and security outputs to check the health of my systems for
a long, time, I agree with this.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 23 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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