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disk space remaining
Posted by Lowell Kirsh on February 12th, 2005


How can I check how much space I have left on my hard disk? I use bash,
if that matters.

Lowell

Posted by Bev A. Kupf on February 12th, 2005


On Sat, 12 Feb 2005 13:18:58 -0800,
Lowell Kirsh (lkirsh@cs.ubc.ca) wrote:
`df` should tell you the number of kilobytes used/available on all
mounted partitions. So I suppose you could mount all the partitions
on your disk, and then try `df`.

Beverly
--
Many a smale maketh a grate -- Geoffrey Chaucer

Posted by Lowell Kirsh on February 13th, 2005


perfect, thanks.

Bev A. Kupf wrote:

Posted by sien0001 on February 22nd, 2005


If you are anything like me, btye intollerant, than use the ' -h'
switch with df and it will print the amounts of data in human readable
format.

Greg

Posted by Greg Beeker on February 23rd, 2005



Bev A. Kupf wrote:
Depending on your OS, df may show data reported on 512 byte blocks. I
always use df -k for data reported in 1024 byte blocks.

df
Filesystem 512-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 65536 22272 67% 1982 13% /

df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 32768 11136 67% 1982 13% /


Posted by Kevin Collins on February 25th, 2005


In article <1109089154.248373.128720@o13g2000cwo.googlegroups .com>, sien0001
wrote:
Where besides linux does the '-h' option exist? Not on HP-UX (through 11.23) or
Solaris (5.8)... Its a great option, tho

Kevin

Posted by jpd on February 25th, 2005


Begin <slrnd1uotc.m1g.spamtotrash@halo.unix-guy.com>
On 2005-02-25, Kevin Collins <spamtotrash@toomuchfiction.com> wrote:
I'll add a datapoint: FreeBSD, 4.* and 5.* at least, have it. You could
work through the manpages cgi on freebsd.org; it has collections of
manpages for quite a few releases, both FreeBSD and others.


--
j p d (at) d s b (dot) t u d e l f t (dot) n l .
And I like FreeBSD's df -hi implementation quite a bit better than linux'.

Posted by Dragan Cvetkovic on February 25th, 2005


Kevin Collins <spamtotrash@toomuchfiction.com> writes:

Solaris 9 and 10 do have it:

sc2$ /usr/bin/df -kh
Filesystem size used avail capacity Mounted on
/dev/md/dsk/d10 9.6G 2.7G 6.8G 29% /
/proc 0K 0K 0K 0% /proc
mnttab 0K 0K 0K 0% /etc/mnttab
fd 0K 0K 0K 0% /dev/fd
swap 2.6G 224K 2.6G 1% /var/run
swap 2.7G 97M 2.6G 4% /tmp

[rest snipped]

sc2$ uname -rs
SunOS 5.9

--
Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

Posted by Kevin Collins on February 28th, 2005


In article <lm1xb4y0la.fsf@privacy.net>, Dragan Cvetkovic wrote:
Nice! Maybe I can submit a feature request for HP-UX to add the option...
Anyone know if AIX has the -h option. If it does, I could argue all the other
competitors have this option so HP-UX needs it

I'm assuming the Solaris 'df' is what you are talking about and its not a GNU
'df' add-on?

Thanks,

Kevin

Posted by Alan D Johnson on March 1st, 2005


Kevin Collins wrote:

Posted by Greg Beeker on March 1st, 2005



Kevin Collins wrote:
Not AIX 51.
$df -h
df: Not a recognized flag: h
Usage: df [-P] | [-IMitv] [-k] [-s] [filesystem ...] [file ...]


Posted by Dragan Cvetkovic on March 1st, 2005


Kevin Collins <spamtotrash@toomuchfiction.com> writes:

[snip]

What was your question again?

Dragan

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Dragan Cvetkovic,

To be or not to be is true. G. Boole No it isn't. L. E. J. Brouwer

!!! Sender/From address is bogus. Use reply-to one !!!

Posted by Kevin Collins on March 2nd, 2005


In article <H7PUd.18409$534.10068@twister.nyc.rr.com>, Alan D Johnson wrote:
It still doesn't have a -h option, which was the point we are talking about...

Kevin

Posted by Alan D Johnson on March 2nd, 2005


Kevin Collins wrote:
Filesystem kbytes used avail %used Mounted on
/dev/vg00/lvol3 307200 95416 210200 31% /
/dev/vg00/lvol1 295024 60816 204704 23% /stand
/dev/vg00/lvol8 2097152 489768 1595648 23% /var
/dev/vg02/lvol1 4194304 519587 3445099 13% /var/opt/omni
/dev/vg02/lvol2 3145728 62050 2891137 2% /var/opt/omni/backup
/dev/vg01/lvol1 2097152 698911 1310874 35% /var/adm/sw/save
/dev/vg01/lvol6 4194304 1125249 2877246 28% /var/adm/sw/depot
/dev/vg01/lvol2 1310720 1422 1227474 0% /var/adm/crash
/dev/vg00/lvol7 2097152 1268520 822312 61% /usr
/dev/vg00/lvol6 524288 5640 514768 1% /tmp
/dev/vg02/lvol4 4194304 2020267 2039210 50% /scratch/users
/dev/vg02/lvol3 4194304 2891202 1221699 70% /scratch/d03
/dev/vg01/lvol5 2097152 1615 1964573 0% /scratch/d02
/dev/vg01/lvol4 2097152 863527 1156528 43% /scratch/d01
/dev/vg01/lvol3 2097152 43964 1924909 2% /opt2
/dev/vg00/lvol5 2097152 1739600 357552 83% /opt
/dev/vg01/lvol7 3145728 709566 2283922 24% /opt/omni
/dev/vg00/lvol4 262144 9584 250656 4% /home

I understand, I'm one of those people that looks at it and automatically
realizes what is going on, divide by 1024.

Posted by Chris F.A. Johnson on March 2nd, 2005


On Wed, 02 Mar 2005 at 02:07 GMT, Alan D Johnson wrote:
OTOH, I multiply by 1024 to get the number of bytes.

<OT>
Reminds me of the story of a person in a train muttering to
himself. A fellow passenger asked, "What are you muttering?".

"I'm counting sheep," said the man.

"Don't you find that hard, going by them so fast?"

"Oh no! You see, I just count the legs and divide by four."
</OT>

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