In Mandrake 9.2 the df command now shows the long partition information for your harddrives. It is very hard to read /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part5 so I assigned an alias to it so that is shows as /dev/hda5.
Add this alias to your ~/.bashrc file to shorten the partition names
alias df='df -Ph | sed s/"dev\/ide\/host0\/bus0\/target0\/lun0\/part"/"dev\/hda"/g'
This only works for hda partitions, sorry. It would be easy for someone to write a short bash script to do this simple text replace for any partition but I don't have time.
Another way to do this, kdf comes with KDE and is a very nice graphical program. I use df in many scripts where a graphic program will not work. You could also look on http://freshmeat.net for more programs to show disk free space.
Other commands to try.
du (Disk Usage) is used to show how much space is used in a given directory.
Try these commands in your home directory.
du -hs .
du -hs ./*
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