systat(1)? Really? I thought it only useful for swap ... and swap isn't at issue here, is it? -- KevinDKinsey

Looks like only NetBSD's systat has the disk usage "df" display. So briefly mention only for NetBSD.

Also don't mention swap disk space here, but just refer to section Monitor the virtual memory system.

And show examples of using find(1) to find large files. For extra details on find, refer to Find a file with a given set of attributes.

Maybe this section should also mention how files that are unlinked (deleted) but still open make df and du have different information.

--reed

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On DragonFly: no du -m, no df -c

On OpenBSD: no df -m, no du -m, no df -c

On NetBSD: no df -c

I see you don't mention -m so that is good. It is good they all now support -h.

So maybe just put note in parenthesis: (On FreeBSD, using "-c" with df provides an overall total.)

Also please mention "du -s"

Thanks for teaching me "du -c" :)

Also find -size +900M is not portable. Only k,M,G,T,P are supported by FreeBSD's find(1). (Anyone use "P" :) The portable way is using -size +940000000c (rounded off). (Check this?)

And please mention about when a disk space is full according to du, but not full according to df.

--reed

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The du -hc * | sort -n | grep "[0-9]M" | tail example may be misleading by a novice, because if they use it they may miss larger files (due to du -h switch) like G or T or P and will be sorted wrong. Not very friendly, but maybe the following is simplest and most portable:

"" du -kc | sort -n | tail

(Wildcard * not need either as that will exclude hidden .dot files.) --reed

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Also "du -d" in practice exercise is not portable (and not explained). I'll check later to see what BSDs have it. --reed

Neither Open nor Net ... axed. Thanks. ---KevinDKinsey