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Re: Drive space?



On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Adam Herscher wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2002, Geoff Sweet wrote:
>
> > How can a newby display the free space on a hard drive under 2.9?  I was
> > trying to unzip src.tar.gz so I could upgrade some things, when it told me I
> > was out of room!  So I did a search on google, but sometimes simple stuff is
> > hard to search for.  Thanks for the help.
>
> Use the 'df' command:
> Try 'man df' for more information, and buy the O'Reilly Essential System
> Administration book:

Note also that `man -k disk` and `man -k space` would've turned up df(1),
among others. Also, `man afterboot` has a df example under "Check disk
mounts".
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