Command to provide disk usage #?

What command will tell me how much space is available
on my hard drive?


Jeff Maass jmaass@columbus.rr.com Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass’ IPSC Resources Page: http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass

Jeff Maass <jmaass@columbus.rr.com> wrote:

What command will tell me how much space is available
on my hard drive?

du

(I don’t mean, “duh”, either :slight_smile:)

My favourite version of it is:

du -kP

Cheers,
-RK


Jeff Maass > jmaass@columbus.rr.com > Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass’ IPSC Resources Page: > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass


Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com

Hi Rob

I think you mean ‘df’. ‘du’ is disk usage. ‘df’ is disk free space. Your
favorite options apply to fd, not du.

Bill Caroselli

<nospam94@parse.com> wrote in message news:9q8f8u$pfd$1@inn.qnx.com

Jeff Maass <> jmaass@columbus.rr.com> > wrote:
What command will tell me how much space is available
on my hard drive?

du

(I don’t mean, “duh”, either > :slight_smile:> )

My favourite version of it is:

du -kP

Cheers,
-RK


Jeff Maass > jmaass@columbus.rr.com > Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass’ IPSC Resources Page: > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass


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Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com

“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <qtps@earthlink.net> wrote:

Hi Rob

I think you mean ‘df’. ‘du’ is disk usage. ‘df’ is disk free space. Your
favorite options apply to fd, not du.

Well, then pretend I did say “duh” :slight_smile: :slight_smile:

Only possible excuse is that it was late-ish when I posted. Sigh.
You can see where “du == disk usage” is the immediate knee-jerk answer
to “Command to provide disk usage”. “df == disk free” isn’t as immediately
knee-jerk obvious :slight_smile:

Yes, “df” (and not “fd”, BTW :slight_smile:)

Cheers,
-RK

Bill Caroselli

nospam94@parse.com> > wrote in message news:9q8f8u$pfd$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Jeff Maass <> jmaass@columbus.rr.com> > wrote:
What command will tell me how much space is available
on my hard drive?

du

(I don’t mean, “duh”, either > :slight_smile:> )

My favourite version of it is:

du -kP

Cheers,
-RK


Jeff Maass > jmaass@columbus.rr.com > Located near Columbus Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass’ IPSC Resources Page: > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass


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Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com


Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at www.parse.com

Of course I see now that I screwed up too. I don’t think these options
apply to “fd”

<nospam94@parse.com> wrote in message news:9q9n4e$i0n$1@inn.qnx.com

“Bill Caroselli (Q-TPS)” <> qtps@earthlink.net> > wrote:
Hi Rob

I think you mean ‘df’. ‘du’ is disk usage. ‘df’ is disk free space.
Your
favorite options apply to fd, not du.

Well, then pretend I did say “duh” > :slight_smile: > > :slight_smile:

Only possible excuse is that it was late-ish when I posted. Sigh.
You can see where “du == disk usage” is the immediate knee-jerk answer
to “Command to provide disk usage”. “df == disk free” isn’t as
immediately
knee-jerk obvious > :slight_smile:

Yes, “df” (and not “fd”, BTW > :slight_smile:> )

Cheers,
-RK

Bill Caroselli

nospam94@parse.com> > wrote in message news:9q8f8u$pfd$> 1@inn.qnx.com> …
Jeff Maass <> jmaass@columbus.rr.com> > wrote:
What command will tell me how much space is available
on my hard drive?

du

(I don’t mean, “duh”, either > :slight_smile:> )

My favourite version of it is:

du -kP

Cheers,
-RK


Jeff Maass > jmaass@columbus.rr.com > Located near Columbus
Ohio
USPSA # L-1192 NROI/CRO Amateur Radio K8ND
Maass’ IPSC Resources Page: > http://home.columbus.rr.com/jmaass


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Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com


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Robert Krten, PARSE Software Devices +1 613 599 8316.
Realtime Systems Architecture, Consulting and Training at > www.parse.com