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Old 09-26-2003, 10:49 PM   #1
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Question Shell command to see free space

I have been in linux for 2 months and I know this will sound stuped but I haven't found a command to see how much space I have left in my hard drive. Is there a shell command to see that?
 
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try "df" (no quotes)
 
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thanks it really helped me
 
Old 09-26-2003, 11:00 PM   #4
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You are welcome, "ya'll come back now, hear?"
 
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You can try out 'df -h' to get the results in more readable form.

Also, if you want to know the exact size of a directory, use
'du -h' and you will get the size of all the files, and finally the size of the directory.
 
  


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