Disk Space Available

Mike McCarty mike.mccarty at sbcglobal.net
Fri Nov 4 17:35:44 UTC 2005


David-Paul Niner wrote:
> Mike McCarty wrote:
> 
>>Ki Song wrote:
>>
>>
>>>quick question, how do i see how much disk space is available? i'm using
>>>fedora core 4 without any gui interface.
>>
>>
>>I suggest you learn how to use the tools Linux has...
>>
>>$ apropos disk | grep "us.*e"
>>df                   (1)  - report filesystem disk space usage
>>pvcreate             (8)  - initialize a disk or partition for use by LVM
>>quota                (1)  - display disk usage and limits
>>quotacheck           (8)  - scan a filesystem for disk usage, create,
>>check and repair quota files
>>setfdprm             (8)  - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters
>>
>>
>>Mike
> 
> 
> Running df against a mount target is probably the quickest way.   For
> example:

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