Re: Checking disk space from terminal window

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From: wisdom
Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:01

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In article <1992Jul30.182952.22135@leland.Stanford.EDU>  
magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) 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" will be more useful.

Because the space is being checked on another system, a more useful form would  
be "rsh <machinename> df"

-Scott Wisdom
wisdom@geom.umn.edu

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