*- On 5 May, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote about "How to check the amount of free disk space?" > Hi, > > This is probably a very stupid question, but I haven't been able to find the > answer to it myself. In DOS it was very easy to check the amount of free disk > space, just type dir and the amount of free disk space is shown at the bottom > of the list. Now I have installed Debian on a 850 MB disk and I realy have no > idea of how much free disk space I have. > > What command do I need to use to find out how much free disk space I have > left? > > TIA, > > Robert-Jan > >
df is the command you want. See the man page for all the options. % df -k Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/hda5 3043987 2246087 640465 78% / /dev/hdb1 118965 93281 19537 83% /var /dev/hdc6 538567 449980 60768 88% /home /dev/hda1 1574112 1279616 294496 81% /bri/c /dev/hda6 1574112 1420128 153984 90% /bri/d /dev/hdc5 562272 194000 368272 35% /bri/e //ANGELA/C 2096320 1797248 299072 86% /ang/c //ANGELA/D 1048016 899504 148512 86% /ang/d The last two are smbfs mounts from my wifes Win95 box. -- Brian --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mechanical Engineering [EMAIL PROTECTED] Purdue University http://www.ecn.purdue.edu/~servis ---------------------------------------------------------------------
