Re: HD Space Left, dselect

[Dave Sherohman <esper@usinternet.com>]

Tom Lineman said:
> I installed linux on a 75 mb partition and have no others to spare,
> so obviously space is a problem for me.  All I'd like to know is how I can 
> see how much space there is left on my system, other than going through each 
> directory and ls'ing and then adding up space used.

df will give you summaries of free space for all mounted partitions/shares,
du <directory> will give you the amount of space used by <directory> and
each of its subdirectories.