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suggestion for re-wording Disk usage node in doc/coreutils.texi


From: vy
Subject: suggestion for re-wording Disk usage node in doc/coreutils.texi
Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:05:30 +1000

Hello,

Would the following re-wording be in some small way an improvement to what
is there at the Disk usage node?

9001,9005c9001,9007
< 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.)
---
Files and directories in file-systems are stored in disk devices of
limited size. The commands here describe their space usage and status,
and instruct the host to synchronise the state of storage between
memory and disk. To know more about memory, for example random access
memory or @acronym{RAM}, other commands may be better suited, for example
@command{ps} or @command{pstat} or @command{swap} or some other
command.

-- Van Ly <address@hidden>


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