On 11/22/2011 12:53 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Does anyone agree with me that the mount command > (when used simply to get information) > has become absurdly verbose? as the 'wolf' might say, "the better to serve you with, my dear". ;) > I only use this command to determine what hard disks are mounted. > Now I have to wade through large tracts of information > that make no sense to me, to find the few lines about hard disks. > > Is there any way of getting the information one used to get, > short of saying something like "mount | grep sd"? yes, and what i use. it can either be an 'alias'; alias msd='mount|grep sd|sort' or a 'script'; fn= msd #!/bin/sh mount|grep sd|sort an 'alias' that i use often; alias dfs='df -B 1024|grep /dev/sd|sort' hth. -- peace out. tc.hago, g . *please reply "plain text" only. "html text" are deleted* **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** The installation instructions stated to install Windows 2000 or better. So I installed Linux. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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