Tom Lineman said: > I installed linux on a 75 mb partition and have no others to spare, > so obviously space is a problem for me. All I'd like to know is how I can > see how much space there is left on my system, other than going through each > directory and ls'ing and then adding up space used.
df will give you summaries of free space for all mounted partitions/shares, du <directory> will give you the amount of space used by <directory> and each of its subdirectories.