df -k will give you the size of a formatted filesystem, not the raw
capacity of a device.

fdisk -l will give you capacity information.

On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Andrew Galloway
<[email protected]> wrote:
> df -k will give you the blocksize in 1k blocks
>
>
>>>> "Robert P. J. Day" <[email protected]> 2012-01-19 3:25 PM >>>
> On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, John C Nash wrote:
>
>> Can we have an answer to RD's question as to how to get the capacity
>> info easily?
>
>  someone emailed me and pointed out that "fdisk" seems to give the
> precise usable size.
>
> rday
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