How to check space

sikandar · 09-15-2003, 12:35 PM

I have to check the total available space in the tmp folder so how to check it. I am able to check the space on hd in different mount points with df command but how to check the size of used and available in a folder.

sikandar · 09-15-2003, 12:37 PM

Sorry with ls -l it is available but how to get the column headings in the ls command as it is hard to know the values without headings. With me ls -l genereated data is without field/column names.

jpbarto · 09-15-2003, 12:38 PM

have you tried 'df' if executed it will list available space per partition (provided /tmp is placed in its own partition)

win32sux · 09-15-2003, 02:56 PM

du -h /tmp

win32sux · 09-15-2003, 02:58 PM

du -k /tmp

if you want to know in kilobytes...

man du

if you want to know more about du...

sikandar · 09-15-2003, 11:21 PM

du is abbriviation of? It is very hard to remind without knowing the exact name of the command.

quatsch · 09-15-2003, 11:30 PM

maybe Directory Usage? df as in DiskFree... it's just a guess.

win32sux · 09-16-2003, 12:04 AM

i think it means "disk space used"... but i'm not really sure... it's not "directory usage" because it doesn't just work for directories, it works on files too...

http://www.die.net/doc/linux/man/man1/du.1.html

Xing · 09-16-2003, 05:36 AM

yes , it is disk space used...

sikandar · 09-16-2003, 10:39 AM

Its my suggestion that this detail should be in the man text. When you will get the exact word as du = disk used, df = disk free, ls = ? etc.

Your comments.

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sikandar · 09-16-2003, 10:58 AM

Thanks for you input. I suggested to help those who wants to migrate to Linux and think this is very difficult. So these things will make life easy for those. In the start I thought that Linux is very difficult and friends also told me the same. But really I found it to be very easy...............For those who don't know about Linux and want to learn then just spend atleast one week and you will say Linux is very easy.