[plug] How much free space is on my disk?

Nick Bannon nick at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au
Thu Sep 9 10:46:37 WST 1999


On Thu, Sep 09, 1999 at 10:20:57AM +0800, John Breen wrote:
> Thanks all.
> 
> 'df' was what I was after, and it worked great.
[...]

Careful with other OSes. df from GNU fileutils defaults to printing out
how many kilobytes are free, but under Solaris, for example, df will
print out how many 512 byte blocks are free - doubling your numbers.

"df -k" can then be helpful.

Nick.

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