> I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't > answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb > partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of > room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux > partition. I DOS, I can use chkdsk, is there a similiar function in Linux?
The desired unix command is "df". Often you can find commands like this by using the "-k" (keyword) option of man. If you want to search for multiple keywords, pipe the output into grep. callandor:~> man -k free | grep disk df (1) - summarize free disk space callandor:~> df Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda3 463950 345567 94422 79% / /dev/sda1 478960 449048 29912 94% /dos /dev/sdb1 198428 173112 25316 87% /dosd ftp:/home/ftp 987251 786053 150192 84% /home/ftp cvs:/var/cvs 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/cvs home:/home/verisim 987251 786053 150192 84% /home/verisim fax:/var/spool/fax 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/spool/fax gnats:/var/gnats-db 987251 786053 150192 84% /var/gnats-db gate:/export/tmp 987251 786053 150192 84% /tmpmnt Brian ( [EMAIL PROTECTED] ) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Generated by Signify v1.01. For this and more, visit http://www.verisim.com/ -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]