How to check free disk space

TigerLinux · 10-01-2005, 12:20 AM

fdisk -l shows u your partitions' names
how about to know the free space available?

Dark_Helmet · 10-01-2005, 12:26 AM

df -h /path/to/dir

That requires you to know where your partitions are mounted. A look at /etc/fstab will set things straight if you have trouble remembering.

Optimistic · 10-01-2005, 02:03 AM

df -h

With no options will give you free space of all mounted drives---no need to worry about fstab or remembering.

Ahmed · 10-01-2005, 02:30 AM

If you have QTParted (GUI partitioning software) it'll give you the details about every partition.

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reddazz · 10-01-2005, 02:34 AM

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Originally posted by Optimistic
df -h

With no options will give you free space of all mounted drives---no need to worry about fstab or remembering.

df on its own does the same thing without any flags.

Optimistic · 10-02-2005, 06:30 AM

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Originally posted by reddazz
df on its own does the same thing without any flags.

Yep, but the h flag makes it easier to read. The h is for human-readable, after all.

reddazz · 10-02-2005, 09:23 AM

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Originally posted by Optimistic
Yep, but the h flag makes it easier to read. The h is for human-readable, after all.

To clarify my point, on most Linux distros running "df -h" and "df" results in the same output (human-readable form usually in gigabytes), so its not necessary to use "df -h" unless you want to.

bulliver · 10-02-2005, 09:07 PM

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To clarify my point, on most Linux distros running "df -h" and "df" results in the same output (human-readable form usually in gigabytes), so its not necessary to use "df -h" unless you want to.

Really? I've never seen that before in 4 years of using linux.
Are you sure you don't have a bash alias for df?

reddazz · 10-03-2005, 02:34 AM

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Originally posted by bulliver
Really? I've never seen that before in 4 years of using linux.
Are you sure you don't have a bash alias for df?

Nope, I have not setup any aliases but this could have been done by the distro.

VRV · 10-04-2005, 05:04 PM

Thank you. df -h is suitable.