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authorPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-09-19 22:39:38 +0000
committerPaul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>2006-09-19 22:39:38 +0000
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* coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.
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* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f are
independent. Clarify -i's behavior.
+ (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.
2006-09-08 Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
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@@ -9229,11 +9229,9 @@ For example, use @samp{touch ./12312359 main.c} or @samp{touch -t
@cindex disk usage
-No disk can hold an infinite amount of data. These commands report on
-how much disk storage is in use or available. (This has nothing much to
-do with how much @emph{main memory}, i.e., RAM, a program is using when
-it runs; for that, you want @command{ps} or @command{pstat} or @command{swap}
-or some such command.)
+No disk can hold an infinite amount of data. These commands report
+how much disk storage is in use or available, report other file and
+file status information, and write buffers to disk.
@menu
* df invocation:: Report file system disk space usage.