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| author | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-09-19 22:39:38 +0000 |
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| committer | Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu> | 2006-09-19 22:39:38 +0000 |
| commit | 856443a97d9e2510a6e4fcbd486f181190e8165e (patch) | |
| tree | 4514c66dcfaaec0f812914b3419f5648380b7c21 /doc | |
| parent | 7889cfbbc7a0fff35d65dce18bc995816aec2389 (diff) | |
| download | coreutils-856443a97d9e2510a6e4fcbd486f181190e8165e.tar.xz | |
* coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro. Problem reported by Van Ly.
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog index bb84f1960..10e4109d7 100644 --- a/doc/ChangeLog +++ b/doc/ChangeLog @@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ * 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 index 9b344fa17..bcc336f60 100644 --- a/doc/coreutils.texi +++ b/doc/coreutils.texi @@ -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. |