John, you wrote: > I think this a simple enough question, but even my Unix teacher can't > answer it. I just installed Debian on my 586 Windoze machine, with a 200mb > partition. The first time I installed it on 100 megs but I ran out of > room. My question is how can I check how much space is left on my Linux > partition. I DOS, I can use chkdsk, is there a similiar function in Linux? > Now, that's some Unix teacher :-)
Try 'df' (Disk Free)... it should give you the information you need. For other options for 'df' see the manual page 'man df'. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ørn Einar Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] fax; +46 035 217194 -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]