[NTLUG:Discuss] total drive size

[MadHat]

On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 11:25, Rev. wRy wrote:
> Bishop, Cass wrote:
> 
> > What I was hoping for is a command, or series of commands that can get the
> > info for each partition then total it up for me.  I have started with this
> > to get a list of partition sizes but I'm not sure what to do with it now.  I
> > need to total this number and make it human readable(like the df -h option).
> > 
> > df|cut -c 20-29|grep -v block
> 

ok, try this...

$ for i in `df -k | grep "^/dev" | awk '{print $3}'`; do total=`dc -e
"$i $total + p" 2>/dev/null`; done; total=`dc -e "$total 1024 / p"`;
echo "total Mb used $total"

Will print total Mb used on the computer

It would be easier to script, but...

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