Doh !
meant df -h

try du -ms /dirname  to see how much space a directory takes

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Rogers, John [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, 31 January 2000 15:32
> To:   'Jeff Nelson'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> Subject:      RE: Seeing disk space used
> 
> du -h will display all filesystems  their size,how much used, %capacity
> and
> where mounted.
> 
> regards
> John Rogers
> OCE Australia
> System Engineer
> PH 32128114
> FAX 32128101
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> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From:       Jeff Nelson [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent:       Monday, 31 January 2000 15:20
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject:    Seeing disk space used
> > 
> > Hi everybody,
> > 
> > This question has come up where I work ... is there a shell command to
> > find
> > out the amount of space used and/or the amount of space available on
> your
> > hard drive partition?
> > 
> > Thanks in advance.
> > 
> > Jeff Nelson
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > 
> > 
> > 
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