dhague30 Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 hi, i am using mandrake 9.1 and gnome. this may be a silly question, but how do i find out how full my harddrive is? thanks dave Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest stodge Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 From a shell you can type: df -h Check "man df" for more information. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest JaseP Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Graphically: Open a console and run konqueror from there (the KDE file manager). Make sure you turn on "Show Extended Sidebar" in the Window menu option. Go to the root partition at the end of the tree and highlight it. Click on an empty place on the white field on the right and it will show you the amount of free space on your main drive. Repeat this on any other partition for a similar output. From the console: I think you can do this with fsck to learn how to use it, open a shell, su to root, and type man fsck (the Q key quits the man pages). Gnome doesn't have a good, simple tool for determining the size of an entire drive. But it does look prettier, it's just not as robust as KDE. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Also, you can go du -s somefolder or du -s * To get the size of the folder and contents.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pmpatrick Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 Last but not least, you can go into KDE Control Center>Information>Storage Devices and get a nice graphical display of all your mounted partitions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSe Posted June 4, 2003 Report Share Posted June 4, 2003 And, since you do not use KDE but Gnome - you can open the Gnome System Monitor (I use it under fluxbox as well) - which will list all hds and partitions with size and fill. Gnome doesn't have a good, simple tool for determining the size of an entire drive. But it does look prettier, it's just not as robust as KDE. erm... no. I agree Gnome is not perhaps as robust as KDE, but it does have most of the tools, it is just generally more difficult to find them in Gnome, the gnome way of doing things doesn't always make sense. I don't care though, me uses fluxbox Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darkelve Posted June 6, 2003 Report Share Posted June 6, 2003 I think I remember fiddling around with the commands and using $ partmon -v do do this quickly. Darkelve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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