Yes Skywalker, I do mean my data at Shellworld, and yes it seems your -h solution did work...I think. I ran this twice. first i did: du -hs keeping janina's inclusion. i was told. 1.8g now, i ran du -h and got more of a directory breakdown, but still got the same total. some of this is under sub directories like /vicq and /amil, the data from which I might not want to copy. but in theory I have almost 2gb of data up here everything included. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Janina Sajka wrote: > >> You don't say how much data you have there? Issue the following command >> from your home directory to find out how much data you have: >> du -ms . > > -m is not a supported option under the du provided with FreeBSD, which is > what Shellworld is running, assuming that is the ISP she is talking about. > > -h should probably work for the same effect. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >