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Babak K. Shandiz
Babak K. Shandiz

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Living in the Shell #19; df (Report Disk Free Space)

df ๐Ÿ’พ

Reports disk free space.

See disk free space

df 
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Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on tmpfs 1603540 2068 1601472 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p3 471738592 268747932 178957944 61% / tmpfs 8017688 327492 7690196 5% /dev/shm tmpfs 5120 4 5116 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4096 0 4096 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p1 244988 5304 239684 3% /boot/efi tmpfs 1603536 120 1603416 1% /run/user/1000 

Note that the values are in kilobytes.

Human-readable size values -h

df -h 
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 1.6G 2.1M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p3 450G 257G 171G 61% / tmpfs 7.7G 313M 7.4G 4% /dev/shm tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p1 240M 5.2M 235M 3% /boot/efi tmpfs 1.6G 120K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000 

Include file-system type -T

df -hT 
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Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 2.1M 1.6G 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p3 ext4 450G 257G 171G 61% / tmpfs tmpfs 7.7G 296M 7.4G 4% /dev/shm tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock tmpfs tmpfs 4.0M 0 4.0M 0% /sys/fs/cgroup /dev/nvme0n1p1 vfat 240M 5.2M 235M 3% /boot/efi tmpfs tmpfs 1.6G 120K 1.6G 1% /run/user/1000 

Produce a grand total --total

df -h --total 
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Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on ... total 461G 257G 182G 59% - 

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Ernesto Lopez

Great short content, easy to understand and follow, and useful for a quick doubt