df will report the size and utilization of all mounted partitions.

du will report individual file sizes, and it can (with appropriate flags)
report the size of directories.

"man df" and "man du" for details.

At 09:20 PM 1/30/00 -0800, Jeff Nelson wrote:

>This question has come up where I work ... is there a shell command to find
>out the amount of space used and/or the amount of space available on your
>hard drive partition?

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Ray Olszewski                                        -- Han Solo
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