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Re: Who stole my IBM i disk space ?

From a 5250, start a PASE shell by issuing:

     CALL QP2TERM

Then issue:
 
    du --help

to see detailed help for how to use this command.



On Thursday, August 15, 2024 at 04:34:22 AM EDT, Patrik Schindler <poc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Hello James,

Am 14.08.2024 um 23:13 schrieb James H. H. Lampert via MIDRANGE-L <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Just out of morbid curiosity,

Has anybody else noticed that the name of this utility, "ncdu," sounds (at least in the most obvious pronunciation) like Gilgamesh's sidekick ("Enkidu")?

Nope. I guess this is not intentional.

nc is for ncurses, a common library for cursor positioning within vt100 environments and companions.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ncurses

du is for disk usage, a common command on Unix'ish OS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Du_(Unix)

The latter is already provided by IBM on my 7.2 test machine. Probably no need to involve installing ncdu if you seek for pure text output.

:wq! PoC

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