From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 22:39:38 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: * coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro.  Problem reported by Van Ly.
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* coreutils.texi (Disk usage): Clarify intro.  Problem reported by Van Ly.
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diff --git a/doc/ChangeLog b/doc/ChangeLog
index bb84f1960f..10e4109d77 100644
--- a/doc/ChangeLog
+++ b/doc/ChangeLog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 
 	* coreutils.texi (cp invocation): Say that -i and -f are
 	independent.  Clarify -i's behavior.
+	(Disk usage): Clarify intro.  Problem reported by Van Ly.
 
 2006-09-08  Paul Eggert  <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
 
diff --git a/doc/coreutils.texi b/doc/coreutils.texi
index 9b344fa17c..bcc336f605 100644
--- a/doc/coreutils.texi
+++ b/doc/coreutils.texi
@@ -9229,11 +9229,9 @@ For example, use @samp{touch ./12312359 main.c} or @samp{touch -t
 
 @cindex disk usage
 
-No disk can hold an infinite amount of data.  These commands report on
-how much disk storage is in use or available.  (This has nothing much to
-do with how much @emph{main memory}, i.e., RAM, a program is using when
-it runs; for that, you want @command{ps} or @command{pstat} or @command{swap}
-or some such command.)
+No disk can hold an infinite amount of data.  These commands report
+how much disk storage is in use or available, report other file and
+file status information, and write buffers to disk.
 
 @menu
 * df invocation::               Report file system disk space usage.