Alexander, I want to acknowledge your very substantial reply, I've been busy with other things the last few days and didn't have time to do that. And still don't right now. So, I am going to edit this node when I have time to do your suggestions justice, rather than rush through it. Thanks for your thoughts.

EDIT

Ok, I've had a chance to look at Alexander's post, and download and run the code.

Here's how the data looks from running your first script, on one of my Gnu/Linux systems. 

$ perl stat-and-friends.pl
/: on device 2082
/bin: on device 2082 (symlink to usr/bin)
/sbin: on device 2082 (symlink to usr/sbin)
/lib: on device 2082 (symlink to usr/lib)
/usr: on device 2082
/usr/bin: on device 2082
/usr/sbin: on device 2082
/usr/lib: on device 2082
/proc: on device 23
/sys: on device 22
/run: on device 25
/tmp: on device 2082
/var/run: on device 2082 (symlink to /run)
/var/tmp: on device 2082

So. Interesting. This seems useful for getting a picture of how resources are being allocated to the various filesystems. I don't think I've ever actually used perl's stat or lstat in a program I've written. I'm going to have to remember that perl has these built-in functions and they could be useful.

Thanks for waiting a long time for my reply, Alexander :-)

    – Soren
Apr 01, 2026 at 16:31 UTC

In reply to Re^3: An anomaly with Filesys::DfPortable, I need your eyes by Intrepid
in thread An anomaly with Filesys::DfPortable, I need your eyes by Intrepid

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