Re: Free space on Linux Drive
> I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't
> answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb
> partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of
> room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux
> partition. I DOS, I can use chkdsk, is there a similiar function in Linux?
The desired unix command is "df".
Often you can find commands like this by using the "-k" (keyword) option
of man. If you want to search for multiple keywords, pipe the output
into grep.
callandor:~> man -k free | grep disk
df (1) - summarize free disk space
callandor:~> df
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sda3 463950 345567 94422 79% /
/dev/sda1 478960 449048 29912 94% /dos
/dev/sdb1 198428 173112 25316 87% /dosd
ftp:/home/ftp 987251 786053 150192 84% /home/ftp
cvs:/var/cvs 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/cvs
home:/home/verisim 987251 786053 150192 84% /home/verisim
fax:/var/spool/fax 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/spool/fax
gnats:/var/gnats-db 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/gnats-db
gate:/export/tmp 987251 786053 150192 84% /tmpmnt
Brian
( bcwhite@verisim.com )
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