On Sun, 19 Jan 1997, John wrote: > 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?
Some UNIX teacher! ;-) Try the df command. Here's an example: $ df / Filesystem 1024-blocks Used Available Capacity Mounted on /dev/sda3 940462 748805 143069 84% / Hint for the future: try the apropos utility. If you ran the following: $ apropos disk You would have gotten a long listing, but the following would have been part of it: df (1) - summarize free disk space When you're stumped, the apropos command is a good place to start. Best regards, Nick -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nick Busigin <Sent from my Debian/GNU Linux Machine> [EMAIL PROTECTED] To obtain my pgp public key, email me with the subject: "get pgp-key" -------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]