I normally do not play a lot with options in some of Puppy's utilities.
But I was running Puppy Lupu 520 and decided to try some of the options in partview.
When I would select DETAILS and choose a partition, I would get a blank xdialog window with no information shown.
From there, I opened /tmp/xerrs.log I saw that the du command was complaining about parameters such as:
du: invalid option -- 'd'
du: invalid option -- '1'
Try `du --help' for more information.
So I think those invalid options were stopping du from working and resulting in the empty xdialog window in DETAILS.
Can someone verify this and is there a solution other than editing the partview file and removing the invalid options?
partview errors using the DETAILS button
That is the version of partview I am using.rcrsn51 wrote:Just to be clear, you are using the new Partview from here.
Read Note #2.
This feature only works in recent Puppies.
And as I stated, I am using it with Lupu 520.
So are you saying that the du command changed in later versions to include more options?
When I run it from a terminal, the du part never completes as it kicks out the feedback I showed in my first post.
If I make a modified script excluding those options, it will show the files in a directory with sizes of them.
And I would have thought that Lupu 520 was not that old.
Also, I was giving insight into why the DETAILS part of partview failed to complete in Lupu 520.
Yes.8-bit wrote:So are you saying that the du command changed in later versions to include more options?
That's true. But I find it more useful to see the total sizes of the top-level directories, instead of all the individual files. The new versions of du can do this.If I make a modified script excluding those options, it will show the files in a directory with sizes of them.