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| Apexing the Linux learning curve - Linux for Learners | |
| by Hamish Taylor | |
| Friday, 15 August 2008 | |
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In Linux, how can I see how I get the same information? You can use the Command Line Interface (CLI) and type in "df -lh" and see something like the following: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda5 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% / varrun 442M 136K 442M 1% /var/run varlock 442M 0 442M 0% /var/lock udev 442M 84K 442M 1% /dev devshm 442M 288K 442M 1% /dev/shm lrm 442M 39M 404M 9% /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile /dev/hda6 15G 9.4G 4.9G 66% /home gvfs-fuse-daemon 15G 6.5G 7.7G 46% /home/hamish/.gvfs ...but that won't actually mean very much to many people (including me!). So how do I some more useful information using a graphical tool? I can go to the Places menu, click on my home folder (the one with the house icon on it), click the Up button, then right-click on the name of the home folder again and click on Properties. This gives me the information I want. In fact I can right-click on any folder and then click on Properties and see how many items there are, how much used space and how much free space there is. There really is no difference to how this works in Windows. Please read onto page 2 to find out another way of getting this information. |
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