UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

What is the easy way to see what size mydisk (total disk size) is ? similar to properties in windows ? Thanks.

Xramm,
Try the "df" command.

OK I tried df but, is there any windows like command to show total disk size in one line ? Thanks.

Xramm,
As this is an Unix forum, the majority are Unix people.
Instead of referencing another operating system, best
is to give an example.

Code:

df .
df  /path

df . shows the free space for the current directory (filesystem)
df /path shows the free space for the another directory

edit: unix uses filesystems. Several disks can be one filesystem or one disk can be the entire filesystem. It is kind of like partitions.

for solaris sparc boxes ... use the command below to see the installed disks ...

Code:

format < /dev/null

for disks that do not have the file size in their description ... select the device name from the command above [i.e., c0t0d0] and then run the commands below (pick one or both)

Code:

format c0t0d0 << !
i
!

or

Code:

format c0t0d0 << !
c
!

in this forum ,ghostdog74 advised that:

df -k |awk 'NR>1{count+=$2}END{print "Total: "count" K-blocks"}' it shows Total k-Blocks as summary.

and then also dfspace has been recommended I think it is a tool and it is working nice like this:

#sh dfspace
/ : 10164.24 MB of 14083.34 MB available ( 72.17%)
/var/run : 247.14 MB of 247.25 MB available ( 99.96%)
/var/lock : 247.25 MB of 247.25 MB available (100.00%)
/proc/bus/usb : 247.14 MB of 247.25 MB available ( 99.95%)
/dev : 247.14 MB of 247.25 MB available ( 99.95%)
/dev/shm : 247.25 MB of 247.25 MB available (100.00%)
/lib/modules/2.6.20-16-gener: 214.26 MB of 247.25 MB available ( 86.65%)
/media/sda1 : 1642.54 MB of 10997.59 MB available ( 14.94%)
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Total : 13256.96 MB of 26564.46 MB available ( 49.90%)