*- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about "freespace on linux partition"
| Any idea how to find out how much free space there is in megabytes on a 
partition, and on the system as a whole?
| frankie
| [EMAIL PROTECTED]

df -m [<device>|<directory>]

see 'man df'

ex.

% df -m /
Filesystem         MB-blocks    Used Available Capacity Mounted on
/dev/hda5               2972    2042      776     72%   /

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Brian 
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