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Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?



In a message dated 5/5/99 10:56:53 AM Central Daylight Time, 
r.kuijvenhoven@kabelfoon.nl writes:

> 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?
>  

df

will show you how much free space you have in native Linux terms

df -h

will show you the same thing, but it more readable terms.

-Jay


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