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I didn't have parted and my sources for urpmi were out of date so it took me a while o get it sorted out. Anyway, the command runs successfully now but the output is not entirely correct. I'm guess the variable doesn't get a new values when expected.
Yes, It's definately the right direction. It seems that df -h /dev/sda gives the wrong values while df -h sda1 works much better.
Btw it doesn't really matter what each drive has, I'm just after a combined sum for all drives. But I guess I can just add a summation variable for that.
sda1,sda2,sda3 etc are slices on the same drive (sda). So i'm guessing you dont want to know about the individual slices, but rather the combines slice usage on each drive? And the combined total of all drives?
I'm actually only after the combined total of all slices on all drives.
Looking at it a bit closer I'm thinking of just adding up the output from df -h somehow... but not very well acquainted with writing bash scripts. I'd need to parse each line it outputs, split to extract each set of values and sum them together.
I'm looking at using
df | grep 'dev' | awk '{print $4}' | cut -d 'G' -f 1
somehow perhaps...
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