@happy_wheels@lemmy.blahaj.zone
Post #3675641
2026-06-30 22:11 UTC
Pardon my stupidity BUT why include stdout to Devnull? Why not omit and simply 'du -sh /home'
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@nbailey@lemmy.ca 2026-06-30 22:24
There’s probably a bunch of permissions errors, filesystems warnings for cross-filesystem mounts or links, etc. all going to stderr. Linux output streams are a bit odd, 1 is stdout and 2 is stderr. So the command is redirecting the “noise” to null and just printing the actual command output. That would be my assessment, but OP could probably give a more correct answer..!