df -m | sed -n 2p | awk '{ print $4 }'
that will show you how much space you have left on the root partition in most
cases if your /boot isn't mounted.
Basically sed prints the second line while awk gets the forth bit of
information printed which is your free disk space.
On Friday 30 January 2004 17:56, Paul Stear wrote:
> Hi again,
> Can anybody help with my backup script? I need to calculate the free space
> on a disc.
> I can get the disc size so all I need is to calculate the used size and
> then subtract.
> Or is there an easier way?
>
> thanks
> Paul
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