Re: Command line tool to report free/used per partition
On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 11:53:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> On 04/11/2020 10:51 AM, David Wright wrote:
> > On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 10:21:16 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote:
> > > I've a laptop dedicated to comparing space used by different install
> > > options.
> > >
> > > I need a command line tool report on spaced actually used on each
> > > partition. Gparted reports that by default, but I need a command line
> > > tool.
> >
> > df for disk space free, du for disk usage. For the latter, you
> > probably want -b, -s and -x and root.
>
> For my current needs, du is too fine grained.
If fine-grained means precision, use eg -BMB for MB.
If fine-grained means detailed, use -d 0.
# du -b -xd 1 /
49152 /tmp
4096 /srv
4096 /mnt
16384 /lost+found
446484870 /var
8523624668 /usr
116154651 /boot
8198 /media
20937 /home
4096 /opt
541017 /root
10712618 /etc
9097629043 /
# du -BMB -xd 1 /
1MB /tmp
1MB /srv
1MB /mnt
1MB /lost+found
474MB /var
9123MB /usr
117MB /boot
1MB /media
1MB /home
1MB /opt
1MB /root
25MB /etc
9739MB /
#
# du -b -xd 0 /
9097629043 /
# du -BMB -xd 0 /
9739MB /
#
> My current vision includes cataloging the number of items returned by
> "apt-mark showmanual" and space occupied by the installed system.
>
> I have not selected all the metrics I wish to compare.
Cheers,
David.
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