Hi! I need help on how to change the output of df on my MDK10 machine. It's something like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
1.8G 1.4G 338M 81% /
/dev/ide/host0/bus1/target0/lun0/part1
201M 161M 40M 81% /mnt/win_c

I will prefer it to be something like this:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 8.7G 5.7G 3.0G 66% /
/dev/hda1 9.8G 8.0G 1.9G 82% /mnt/windows
/dev/hdc1 19G 14G 5.6G 70% /mnt/hdc1
/dev/sda1 246M 244M 1.3M 100% /mnt/removable

In other words, I would like to have understandable device names.
Thanks

what command are you currently using?

i usually use df -h. i presume you want to suppress the file system field. i dont understand why it's not spaced out. are you using a small terminal window??

It shows normally on my terminal. What I'm bothered about actually is the device name as in the:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5
when it can show
/dev/hda5

I have a script that utilizes the naming convention of latter statement that why I'm so bothered. Thanks for your concern.

Still searching for answers...

Looks like it could be a devfs issue... I'm not sure why. I know devfs resolves the "only hda-hdz and sda-sdz are supported" problem by creating that huge path as seen in your df output.

Are you (or is the computer in question) using devfs? I use udev, so that may be why I don't suffer from this issue. Why must your script use the /dev/hd_ notation; it should be able to handle the new naming scheme too.. they stand for the same thing.

I really don't know how to tweak the script to use the other naming convention. By the way, I use MDK 10.0. I sincerely don't think that it uses UDEV (starts with 10.1). I guess I'm still on my own.

I'm using udevd and my output is nice and readable:

$ df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 31G 8.0G 21G 29% /
/dev/hda2 27G 1.4G 25G 6% /home
/dev/hda3 17G 1.9G 14G 13% /var
/dev/hdc2 19G 12G 6.1G 65% /var/backup
/dev/hdc1 19G 11G 7.1G 60% /var/ftp

It may be as simple as going to mcc > system > services and turning devfs off and udev on (if it is installed).

Michael

Thanks! That's just what I needed.