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Displaying Hard Disk Info. - kZo - 2003-12-16
Quick way to view your hdd stats.
[root@intmail root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md0 73G 2.8G 66G 4% /
none 504M 0 503M 0% /dev/shm
The -h is for "Human readable" basically tells us GB verse MB etc.
[root@intmail root]# df --help
This will display more information about the df command.
Displaying Hard Disk Info. - Henry3 - 2009-03-09
Just get my diskinfo script from http://www.thenerdshow.com/index.php?page=installation
It lists partitions underneath physical drives, so I don't get confused about which is which.
Like its predacessor df, it runs as a normal user. We don't need root. Run with -i for interactive.
Here it is called diskinfo but to save typing I secretly rename my copy to dl. [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]
$ diskinfo -i
Drive Size Description (Removables are highlighted in blue)
/dev/fd0 Empty /dev/floppy-fd0 platform:floppy disk
/dev/sda 37G ATA SAMSUNG SV4002H
├─/dev/sda1 102M mounted on /boot type ext3
├─/dev/sda2 36G mounted on / type ext3
└─/dev/sda3 1G mounted on swap type swap
/dev/sdb 114G ATA Maxtor 6Y120P0
└─/dev/sdb1 114G
/dev/sr0 Empty /dev/dvdrw3 HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N