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How to check HDD space use

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by net designer 2 views

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RHL9
How can I check how much HDD space is used. RHL9 was installed on a 20 Gb drive with whatever default partioning installer gave it.

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by softcorp.us

Hello...

The quick way is the "df" command:

[root@VMSOFTCORP symlinks]# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2 16152764 2339472 12992776 16% /
/dev/hda1 101089 9323 86547 10% /boot
none 63028 0 63028 0% /dev/shm
[root@VMSOFTCORP symlinks]#

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by jmgarvin

To make it human readable use df -h.
#df -h

You can also find the size of directories via the du command. du -h makes it human readable.
#du -h

ls -lah lists all your files and directories with the size in human readable format.
#ls -lah

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