On Sat, 2003-09-06 at 15:00, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Saturday 06 Sep 2003 7:26 pm, Margot wrote:
> > Eric Huff wrote:
> > >>How can I tell if I have the HD space?
> > >
> > > df at the cli
> >
> > OK, now I'm confused! This is what I got:
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$ df
> > Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
> > /dev/hda5              49G  2.2G   44G   5% /
> > /dev/hda6             8.1G  406M  7.7G   5% /home
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] margot]$
> >
> > My HD is supposed to be 60G, but 49G + 8.1G = 57.1G, and for the
> > first line 2.2G + 44G = 46.2G - where's the rest?
> >
> > Margot
> 
> This is very likely the old chestnut about whether 1GB = 1000MB or 
> 1024MB.
> 
> Anne


Not only that, df only shows mounted partitions, (as in how much swap?)
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