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- From: wisdom@geom.umn.edu
- Subject: Re: Checking disk space from terminal window
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- References: <1992Jul30.182952.22135@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 19:01:06 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul30.182952.22135@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- magnus@Fisher.Stanford.EDU (Magnus Nordborg) 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" will be more useful.
-
- Because the space is being checked on another system, a more useful form would
- be "rsh <machinename> df"
-
- -Scott Wisdom
- wisdom@geom.umn.edu
-