[brlug-general] [SAGE] df breaks scripts

[Alvaro Zuniga]

Now I am really confused here, -P deals with the 512-byte block right?
so what happened to the formatting problem? So I am really, really confused 
now. Must be some kind of sysadmin talk. 


On Mon, Feb 04, 2008 at 02:59:02PM -0600, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> This may be true: "People who shortened device to dev might not think 
> that '/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00' is a sane device name." However, 
> that's a default that Red Hat/CentOS uses when doing LVM so it would be 
> nice if the df on Red Hat/CentOS handled it well. :)
> 
> The problem with Filesys::DiskSpace is that it doesn't address the core 
> issue here: Most existing scripts expect df to act in a certain way..
> 
> So far, the only solution we've been able to come up with is a wrapper 
> for df that forces -P.
> 
> --
> Puryear Information Technology, LLC
> Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414
> http://www.puryear-it.com
> 
> Author, "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers"
>    http://www.puryear-it.com/pubs/linux-unix-best-practices
> 
> Identity Management, LDAP, and Linux Integration
> 
> 
> willhill wrote:
> > People who shortened device to dev might not think 
> > that "/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00" is a sane device name.  
> > 
> > Have you looked at perl's Filesys::DiskSpace?  I ran into it here:
> > 
> > http://www.cyberciti.biz/tips/howto-write-perl-script-to-monitor-disk-space.html
> > 
> > A similar dissaster happened to g77, where the print output was automatically 
> > line broken to 80 columns.  This broke every loop formated code.  I'm not 
> > sure how that one turned out because I've done everything in C since.
> > 
> > On Monday 04 February 2008 10:43 am, Dustin Puryear wrote:
> >> But I think you're missing the point. Since days of yore, people have
> >> generally used 'df' with the assumption that it had sane output by
> >> default. ;)
> > 
> > _______________________________________________
> > General mailing list
> > General at brlug.net
> > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
> 
> _______________________________________________
> General mailing list
> General at brlug.net
> http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net