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Article #537Re: Checking disk space from terminal window
From: John Soward
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:45
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:45
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Tim Reed writes
-> In article <1992Jul29.215806.23801@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu
-> (Joseph Good) writes:
-> >
-> > Is there a way to see how much space is left on the hard disk and
-> not use the
-> > workspace? I'm wanting to check it on a remote machine (i.e. the
-> printer
-> > server) and that is in another room... and most of the time,
-> somebody else is
-> > on.
-> >
-> > any suggestions?
->
-> The unix command du does what you want.
I think "df" would be more apropos.
df == "disk free"
du == "disk used"
use "man du" and "man df" for more info.
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!gatech!ukma!news From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward) Subject: Re: Checking disk space from terminal window References: <1992Jul30.155119.13613@newsgate.sps.mot.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: slow.inslab.uky.edu Message-ID: <1992Jul30.184507.25200@ms.uky.edu> Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences Sender: news@ms.uky.edu (USENET News System) Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:45:07 GMT Lines: 27