On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 11:53:33 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > On 04/11/2020 10:51 AM, David Wright wrote: > > On Sat 11 Apr 2020 at 10:21:16 (-0500), Richard Owlett wrote: > > > I've a laptop dedicated to comparing space used by different install > > > options. > > > > > > I need a command line tool report on spaced actually used on each > > > partition. Gparted reports that by default, but I need a command line > > > tool. > > > > df for disk space free, du for disk usage. For the latter, you > > probably want -b, -s and -x and root. > > For my current needs, du is too fine grained.
If fine-grained means precision, use eg -BMB for MB. If fine-grained means detailed, use -d 0. # du -b -xd 1 / 49152 /tmp 4096 /srv 4096 /mnt 16384 /lost+found 446484870 /var 8523624668 /usr 116154651 /boot 8198 /media 20937 /home 4096 /opt 541017 /root 10712618 /etc 9097629043 / # du -BMB -xd 1 / 1MB /tmp 1MB /srv 1MB /mnt 1MB /lost+found 474MB /var 9123MB /usr 117MB /boot 1MB /media 1MB /home 1MB /opt 1MB /root 25MB /etc 9739MB / # # du -b -xd 0 / 9097629043 / # du -BMB -xd 0 / 9739MB / # > My current vision includes cataloging the number of items returned by > "apt-mark showmanual" and space occupied by the installed system. > > I have not selected all the metrics I wish to compare. Cheers, David.
