,Thanks for the distinction. In that case, I will want to include the /mail directory as well. Karen On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Luke Davis wrote: > On Mon, 27 Sep 2004, Karen Lewellen wrote: > >> I will want to know this regardless, and am guessing, I hope correctly, >> that it is only my home directory, not the data stored in pine for me. > > Pine is a program. It does not store any data for you. > > If you're talking about your saved mail, in folders such as saved-messages, > sent-mail, and other folders you have created: they are under ~/mail, so they > would be included in the du command, and in the backup. > > If you are talking about new mail, or any other mail stored in your inbox: > that would not be included, as it is in /var/mail/klewellen. > > Luke > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >