Re: How to check the amount of free disk space?
*- On 5 May, Robert-Jan Kuijvenhoven wrote about "How to check the amount of free disk space?"
> Hi,
>
> 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?
>
> TIA,
>
> Robert-Jan
>
>
df is the command you want. See the man page for all the options.
% df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5 3043987 2246087 640465 78% /
/dev/hdb1 118965 93281 19537 83% /var
/dev/hdc6 538567 449980 60768 88% /home
/dev/hda1 1574112 1279616 294496 81% /bri/c
/dev/hda6 1574112 1420128 153984 90% /bri/d
/dev/hdc5 562272 194000 368272 35% /bri/e
//ANGELA/C 2096320 1797248 299072 86% /ang/c
//ANGELA/D 1048016 899504 148512 86% /ang/d
The last two are smbfs mounts from my wifes Win95 box.
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Brian
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