-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Or, more importantly df -h to get a list of your partitions and their size, used, and free space.
Nick Wiltshire wrote: > to find out disk usage, use: > > du -h /home/michael > or > du -h /tmp > > man du for a bunch of options. > > On Monday 14 November 2005 11:06 pm, Michael Walters wrote: > >>Hello All and especially bogi, >> >>I did an ls -l on the tmp directory and various other directories to see >>what space was available in the directories but found out that the >>answers I got was not the amount of space used in the directories and >>subdirectories. >> >>How do I find out how much space is used in my michael home directory >>and how do I find out how much space is available in the tmp directory >>and how do I change how much is available in my tmp directory? >> >>I found out that one jpg in my mudry subdirectory had 433766 bytes in it >>and that another picture that was not stitched together had 109290 bytes >>in it. >> >>I take it that if I could resize the tmp directory I might be able to >>tar and possibly zip my home directory in michael. Then perhaps I could >>burn the tarred and zipped file to a CD. >> >>I tried finding out the man page on the ls command and could not figure >>out everything I need to know about the meaning of the numbers under an >>ls -l command. >> >>If I need to repartition my hard drive to do this, how do I do that? >> >>Any help appreciated in advance, >> >>Michael Walters >> >>_______________________________________________ >>clug-talk mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca >>Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) >>**Please remove these lines when replying > > > _______________________________________________ > clug-talk mailing list > [email protected] > http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca > Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) > **Please remove these lines when replying -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFDeXyFwRXgH3rKGfMRAqy3AJ42jwOXKeFjmoW4wzEhZ/L8XETvuACZAatG J5Xfo+YphSrK/TeBfD5w96Y= =HsKL -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
