RE: {bb} how does bb-dftab work?

[Ralf.Strandell@silja.com]

Note: I assumed that there is an Unix-like command shell (sh, ksh,...)
available on MacOS X etc. If MacOS X doesn't have it, then you have to find
another solution...

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ralf.Strandell@silja.com [mailto:Ralf.Strandell@silja.com]
> Sent: 24. helmikuuta 2005 17:50
> To: bb@bb4.com
> Subject: RE: {bb} how does bb-dftab work?
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> When bb-disk.sh tries to interpret the output of "df", it 
> usually assumes
> that DISKNAME=$6 . This yields "DISKNAME=/Volumes/Mac"...
> 
> 1) The simplest solution would be to rename that disk so that 
> it would not
> use any spaces in the name.
> 
> 2) Another solution would be a modification of df to 
> something like this:
> 
> $DF | while read line
> do
> 	if [ $# -ge 6 ]
> 	then
> 		set bogus $line ; shift
> 		part1="$1 $2 $3 $4 $5"
> 		shift 5
> 		part2=`echo "$@" | sed 's/ /_/g'`
> 		echo "$part1 $part2"
> 	fi
> done
> 
> This code will replace all spaces with an underscore.
> Maybe this could be a df() function.
> 
> Modify bb-dftab accordingly
> 
> 3) Or just ignore the disk
> 
> DFEXCLUDE="^/Volume/Mac"
> 
> 
> 
> p.s. This is not going to be your last headache caused by spaces.
> 
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Doctor Khumalo [mailto:doctortechie@hotmail.com]
> > Sent: 24. helmikuuta 2005 17:09
> > To: bb@bb4.com
> > Subject: Re: {bb} how does bb-dftab work?
> > 
> > 
> > This does not work.
> > 
> > I don't think I mentioned this but this is an Apple OS X server.
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > >From: Daniel J McDonald <dan.mcdonald@austinenergy.com>
> > >Reply-To: bb@bb4.com
> > >To: bb list <bb@bb4.com>
> > >Subject: Re: {bb} how does bb-dftab work?
> > >Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2005 08:24:27 -0600
> > >
> > >On Thu, 2005-02-24 at 13:55 +0000, Doctor Khumalo wrote:
> > > > I've set up bb-dftab with the following entry
> > > >
> > > >   localhost:/Volume/Mac OS X Install Disc 1:101
> > > >
> > > > but it still keeps reporting an error when it reaches 96% 
> > (see the 
> > >excertp
> > > > below from a df)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > /dev/disk1s3             489963440 199568576 290394864    41%
> > > > /Volumes/Data
> > > > /dev/disk0s3             160574256  95012776  65049480  
>   59%    /
> > > > /dev/disk2s3               8191912   7905176    286736    96%
> > > > /Volumes/Mac OS X Install Disc 1
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > I presume it doesn't like the spaces in the directory 
> > path. Any way 
> > >around
> > > > this?
> > >The usual way to escape spaces is with a \
> > >
> > > >
> > > > 
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