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Old 05-02-2010
Quote:
Originally Posted by m_salah
what i do
Run the script in debug mode and check the values of the variables remspace and xsize.

Add the line:
Code:
set -x

below the line (shebang):
Code:
#!/bin/ksh

# 9  
Old 05-02-2010
I think that the line which fails is this one:
Quote:
if [ "$remspace" -lt "$xsize" ]
Because this line is going wrong.
Code:
remspace=`df -k | awk '$NF == p{print $4}' p=$partition`

In order to understand what happened we need to know what the output of "df -k" looks like on your system.
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