topic Re: bdfmegs in Operating System - HP-UX

bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 14:56:16 GMT

I would like to use "bdfmegs" so I copied the script from the link below.

http://hpunix-administrator.blogspot.com/2008/08/script-to-know-file-system-size-in-gb.html

When I tried to use it, I have this error.
root:/usr/bin #bdfmegs
bdfmegs[88]: Syntax error at line 97 : `)' is not expected.

Any help will be appreciated.

thank you,
Marylou

Re: bdfmegs

Pete Randall — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:05:23 GMT

Download the enhanced version from the author himself:

http://forums11.itrc.hp.com/service/forums/questionanswer.do?threadId=1048509

Pete

Re: bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:28:23 GMT

Thank you. It worked.

Re: bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:00:34 GMT

Using bdfmegs:
/dev/vg06/Fata 854e+06 955 982311 0% /fata

Please let me know why the number is:
854e+06 for this filesystem using bdfmegs

Using bdf:
/dev/vg06/Fata 1073709056 978087 1005886481 0% /fata

for bdf- I have this number:1005886481

Marylou

Re: bdfmegs

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:03:29 GMT

Hmmm... It appears that is a 1 TB file system. Perhaps the script can't handle the math for a value that large.

Re: bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Wed, 22 Oct 2008 16:04:50 GMT

Thank you. I think you are correct

Re: bdfmegs

Bill Hassell — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 01:42:56 GMT

> 854e+06 for this filesystem using bdfmegs

Use the command:

bdfmegs -g

Or even better, do this in the directory where bdfmegs is stored:

ln -s bdfmegs bdfgigs

Now for huge filesystems (multi-terabyte), just use the command:

bdfgigs

I think I will enhance bdfmegs to detect potential overflow. Watch for a new version in the next couple of weeks.

Re: bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 12:31:42 GMT

Hi,
I followed your suggestion but still getting the same results. Thank you anyway.

root:/ #bdfgigs
/dev/vg06/Fata 854e+06 955 982311 0% /fata

Marylou

Re: bdfmegs

Pete Randall — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 13:21:20 GMT

Wouldn't an alias work better?

alias bdfgigs="bdfmegs -g"

Pete

Re: bdfmegs

Bill Hassell — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 02:10:00 GMT

> I followed your suggestion but still getting the same results.

Your copy of bdfmegs is old. Attached is the latest version. Run bdfmegs -h to see all the options like sum total and the percentage selector.

An alias works just as well. I added the code for bdfgigs so that casual users did not have to know anything about aliases.

Re: bdfmegs

Pete Randall — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 12:48:09 GMT

Of course! I should have known Bill would think of everything.

;^)

Pete

Re: bdfmegs

Marylou Kohlmeier — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:01:35 GMT

Thank you everyone, particular Bill Hassell, for all your help. It's working fine now, after I copied the latest version as Bill suggested.

have a nice week,
Marylou