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

[Paul Eggert]

vy <address@hidden> writes:

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

The old text could stand improvement, yes, thanks.  However, I liked
some of its vigor, so I installed the following patch instead.

2006-09-19  Paul Eggert  <address@hidden>

        * coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro.
        Problem reported by Van Ly.

--- doc/coreutils.texi.~1.351~  2006-09-19 15:06:37.000000000 -0700
+++ doc/coreutils.texi  2006-09-19 15:38:16.000000000 -0700
@@ -9229,11 +9229,9 @@ For example, use @samp{touch ./12312359 
 
 @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.