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+4  Q: 

What is the unix command to see how much disk space there is and how much is remaining?

I'm looking for the equivalent of right clicking on the drive in windows and seeing the disk space used and remaining info.

+14  A: 

Look for the commands du (disk usage) and df (disk free)

MrZebra  2008-10-23 16:27:36
+8  A: 

Use the df command:

df -h

Russ  2008-10-23 16:28:02
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If you want to see how much space each folder ocuppes:

du -sh *

s: summarize h: human readable *: list of folders

German  2008-10-23 17:21:37
+2  A: 

I love doing du -sh * | sort -nr | more .. to sort by the largest files first

Paulo Delgado  2008-10-23 17:41:20
You might want to make that 'du -s *...' instead. 'sort -n' thinks that 1015K is larger than 65M.
Dave Sherohman  2008-10-25 22:09:02
true... my bad... also.. one must be careful depending on the system... BSD support sort -nr ... it's different in linux...
Paulo Delgado  2008-10-31 19:03:52
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du -sm * => RULLLLLEZ

 2009-08-18 02:47:16
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du -sm * => RULLLLLEZ

 2009-08-18 02:50:54

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