Disk Space Available

David-Paul Niner dpniner at dpniner.net
Fri Nov 4 17:38:38 UTC 2005


Mike McCarty wrote:
> David-Paul Niner wrote:
> 
>> 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:
> 
> 
> [snip]
> 
> I always think it's better to teach a man to fish than to give
> him a fish.
> 
> 
> Mike

Your point has merit.

DP
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