Re: Drive consumption

[Hugo Rabson <hugo rabson zetnet co uk>]

On my system, the 'apropos' database hadn't been initialised (altough the OS
had been installed & running for weeks), so I ran 'makewhatis' as root. Then
'apropos' worked fine.


On 26-Feb-99 fred smith wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:36:03PM -0800, Jeffrey S. Patton wrote:
>> i know that this may sound like a stupid question, but is there an easy
>> way
>> to see how much space is left on a drive?
> 
> Yes there is.
> 
> Let me tell you how to find out what it is, rather than just telling
> you what it is. Why? Because you'll want to know about some other command
> next week (or next month) and you'll hafta ask again....
> 
> The 'apropos' command is your friend. When you want to know how much
> free disk space there is, you think of key words that describe what
> you want to do and try:
>       
>       apropos <keyword>
> 
> for example:
> 
>       apropos free
> or:
>       apropos disk
> 
> and voila, it comes back with a couple screens full of stuff, one of 
> which is:
> 
>       df (1)               - summarize free disk space
> 
> so you would then type:
> 
>       man df
> or:
>       man 1 df
> 
> to read all about it.
> 
> Fred.
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Date: 26-Feb-99         Time: 10:45:29
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