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- From: soward@slow.inslab.uky.edu (John Soward)
- Subject: Re: Checking disk space from terminal window
- References: <1992Jul30.155119.13613@newsgate.sps.mot.com>
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- Message-ID: <1992Jul30.184507.25200@ms.uky.edu>
- Organization: University Of Kentucky, Dept. of Math Sciences
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- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 18:45:07 GMT
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- Tim Reed writes
- -> In article <1992Jul29.215806.23801@nmsu.edu> rscott@spock.NMSU.Edu
- -> (Joseph Good) writes:
- -> >
- -> > Is there a way to see how much space is left on the hard disk and
- -> not use the
- -> > workspace? I'm wanting to check it on a remote machine (i.e. the
- -> printer
- -> > server) and that is in another room... and most of the time,
- -> somebody else is
- -> > on.
- -> >
- -> > any suggestions?
- ->
- -> The unix command du does what you want.
-
- I think "df" would be more apropos.
-
- df == "disk free"
- du == "disk used"
-
- use "man du" and "man df" for more info.
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