Hard disk usage...
 

Is there a good way to see current hard disk usage?

I know there is a graphical usage tool in Gnome, which shows each mount point, but this does not really help.

I'm looking for a similar thing to Right Clicking the drive under Windows...

Thanks...

Open a term and type "df".

Thanks...

There seems to be more and more commands for Linux that I am totally unaware of.

GREAT...

A good way to familiarize youself with the different apps is to open /usr/bin and scroll down through the list. Open a term and type "man <appname> for a basic usage.

will do,

thanks...

-h is a good thing to throw on the end of that, as well.

Example on my system:


df -h
gives:

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/rd/c0d0p3 67G 34G 30G 53% /
/dev/rd/c0d0p2 15M 2.9M 11M 20% /boot
/dev/rd/c0d1p1 67G 2.5G 61G 4% /data/audio
/dev/rd/c0d2p1 67G 788M 63G 2% /data/video
/dev/rd/c0d3p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/games
/dev/rd/c0d4p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/code
/dev/rd/c0d5p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/pr0n
/dev/rd/c0d6p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/www
/dev/rd/c0d7p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/users
/dev/rd/c0d8p1 67G 33M 63G 1% /data/other
//uziel/export 19G 5.2G 13G 28% /mnt/archangels/uziel



I snipped it off a bit. I have a lot of network drives...


ls -lh
-r----- 1 root adm 2.1k Jan 1 06:52 xferreport
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 3.3k Dec 1 06:52 xferreport.0
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1013 Nov 1 06:52 xferreport.1.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.1k Aug 1 07:52 xferreport.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 864 Jul 1 2002 xferreport.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 754 Jun 1 2002 xferreport.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.0k May 1 2002 xferreport.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.1k Apr 1 2002 xferreport.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.1k Mar 1 2002 xferreport.7.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 1.1k Feb 1 2002 xferreport.8.gz
-rw-r----- 1 root adm 33 Feb 1 2002 xferreport.9.gz




It means "human readable" for those of you who like to read in Kilobytes and Megabytes, instead. :_)

Well, I wouldn't go all down through /usr/bin and learn about all those files, that'd sure be a long time, and not really worth it IMO. However, I'd look at the fileutil's apps which are:
chgrp, chmod, chown, cp, dd, df, dir, dircolors, du, install, ln, ls, mkdir, mkfifo, mknod, mv, rm, rmdir, shred, sync, touch and vdir

Check out the man on those, they will be the "common" apps for you.

Cool

Other way to find available commands on a subject is to run
man -k <keyword>. Try man -k usage, and you'll see what I mean.
It scans database of all commands, and shows one-line description. Initially all commands indicated to belong to section (1) and (8) are of interest to you, most of the rest are entries for programmers and developers.

cheers,
alina