Stephen Harris wrote:
> And, remember, that the output of "df" might have changed in between
> times you ran "df" and you ran the "awk" command; there's only 7Mbytes
> difference. Did someone delete a 7Mbyte file? Send email? Finish a
> print job? Or... could be plenty of reasons for the used amount to
> go down.
>
> The awk script works correctly, as can be tested easily:
>
> $ cat h
> Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 274405432 18584656 241656808 8% /
> /dev/sda2 101105 19096 76788 20% /boot
> tmpfs 1682508 0 1682508 0% /dev/shm
>
> $ cat h | awk '/^\/dev\// { avail += $3/1024 } END { printf("%d Mb used\n",avail)}'
> 18167 Mb used
>
>
But the whole system used only 18 MB ? That's not true.