Re: Determining used disk space
My mistake. I was refering to 'ls' not 'df'. I confused the two. It's been a
busy day!
On Wednesday 14 August 2002 11:03 am, Dave Sherohman wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 14, 2002 at 10:51:48AM -0400, R. Bradley Tilley wrote:
> > 'df -a' shows objects that use space such as .gnupg and other hidden
> > directories and files. You make it out to seem that it does not.
> >
> > You are correct, you don't need to know that proc (a virtual fs) is using
> > 0 of 0 bytes, however, you may want to know that .emacs is 994 bytes.
> >
> > the -l lists in a more orderly format.
>
> You're not talking about the standard Debian df, then. According to
> `man df`:
>
> -a, --all
> include filesystems having 0 blocks
>
> -l, --local
> limit listing to local filesystems
>
> $ df
> Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 3028080 2766272 107988 96% /
> /dev/hda6 8443964 6957604 1057428 87% /home
>
> $ df -h
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 2.9G 2.6G 105M 96% /
> /dev/hda6 8.1G 6.6G 1.0G 87% /home
>
> $ df -alh
> Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> /dev/hda1 2.9G 2.6G 105M 96% /
> proc 0 0 0 - /proc
> devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
> /dev/hda6 8.1G 6.6G 1.0G 87% /home
>
> Filenames are not relevant to (this) df. I initially suspected that
> you were confusing df with du, but `man du` doesn't agree with you
> about the meaning of -a and -l either.
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