Disk Space Available
David-Paul Niner
dpniner at dpniner.net
Fri Nov 4 17:33:39 UTC 2005
Mike McCarty wrote:
> Ki Song wrote:
>
>> quick question, how do i see how much disk space is available? i'm using
>> fedora core 4 without any gui interface.
>
>
> I suggest you learn how to use the tools Linux has...
>
> $ apropos disk | grep "us.*e"
> df (1) - report filesystem disk space usage
> pvcreate (8) - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
> quota (1) - display disk usage and limits
> quotacheck (8) - scan a filesystem for disk usage, create,
> check and repair quota files
> setfdprm (8) - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters
>
>
> Mike
Running df against a mount target is probably the quickest way. For
example:
df /dev/hda on my machine shows
[dpniner at fortinbras ~]$ df /dev/hda
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
- 256448 788 255660 1% /dev
[dpniner at fortinbras ~]$
Later,
DP
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