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

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

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du -sm         RULLLLLEZ

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df -g     Option g for Size in GBs Block and   for current working directory

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I love doing du -sh     sort -nr   less to sort by the largest files first

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Note  The original question was answered already  but I would just like to expand on it with some extras that are relevant to the topic   Your AIX installation would first be put into volume groups  This is done upon installation   It will first create rootvg  as in root volume group   This is kinda like your actual hard drive mapped   This would be equivalent to Disc Management in Windows  AIX wont use up all of that space for its file systems like we tend to do it in consumer Windows machines  Instead there will be a good bit of unallocated space   To check how much space your rootvg would have you use the following command   lsvg rootvg   That would stand for list volume group rootvg  This will give you information like the size of physical partitions  PP   Total PPs assigned to the volume group  Free PPs in the volume group  etc  Regardless  the output should be fairly comprehensive   Next thing you may be interested in  is the file systems on the volume group  Each file system would have certain amount of space given within the volume group it belongs to   To check what file systems you got on your volume group you use the following command   lsvgfs rootvg   As in list volume group file systems for rootvg   You can check how much space each file system has using the following command   df   I personally like to refine it with flags like -m and -g  in megabytes and gigabytes respectively   If you have free space available in your volume group  you can assign it to your file systems using the following command   chfs -a size  1G  home   As in change file system attribute size by adding 1 G where file system is  home  use man chfs for more instructions  This is a powerful tool  This example is for adjusting size  however you can do more with this command than that   Sources  http   www ibm com developerworks aix library au-rootvg    My own experience working with AIX

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su -sm      You can see every file and folder size  -sm Mb   -sk Kb  in the current directory like a list  This way runs in all Unix Linux environment

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I love doing du -sh     sort -nr   less to sort by the largest files first

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Look for the commands du  disk usage  and df  disk free

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All these answers are superficially correct  However  the proper answer is   apropos disk     And pray your admin maintains the whatis database   because asking questions the answers of which lay at your fingertips in the manual wastes everybody s time

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If you want to see how much space each folder ocuppes   du -sh     s  ndash  summarize h  ndash  human readable    ndash  list of folders

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Use the df command   df -h

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Use the df command   df -h

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If you want to see how much space each folder ocuppes   du -sh     s  ndash  summarize h  ndash  human readable    ndash  list of folders

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All these answers are superficially correct  However  the proper answer is   apropos disk     And pray your admin maintains the whatis database   because asking questions the answers of which lay at your fingertips in the manual wastes everybody s time

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Look for the commands du  disk usage  and df  disk free

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If you want to see how much space each folder ocuppes   du -sh     s  ndash  summarize h  ndash  human readable    ndash  list of folders

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du -sm         RULLLLLEZ

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If you want to see how much space each folder ocuppes   du -sh     s  ndash  summarize h  ndash  human readable    ndash  list of folders

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Use the df command   df -h

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df -tk   for Disk Free size in 1024 byte blocks

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df -tk   for Disk Free size in 1024 byte blocks

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I love doing du -sh     sort -nr   less to sort by the largest files first

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df -g     Option g for Size in GBs Block and   for current working directory

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Note  The original question was answered already  but I would just like to expand on it with some extras that are relevant to the topic   Your AIX installation would first be put into volume groups  This is done upon installation   It will first create rootvg  as in root volume group   This is kinda like your actual hard drive mapped   This would be equivalent to Disc Management in Windows  AIX wont use up all of that space for its file systems like we tend to do it in consumer Windows machines  Instead there will be a good bit of unallocated space   To check how much space your rootvg would have you use the following command   lsvg rootvg   That would stand for list volume group rootvg  This will give you information like the size of physical partitions  PP   Total PPs assigned to the volume group  Free PPs in the volume group  etc  Regardless  the output should be fairly comprehensive   Next thing you may be interested in  is the file systems on the volume group  Each file system would have certain amount of space given within the volume group it belongs to   To check what file systems you got on your volume group you use the following command   lsvgfs rootvg   As in list volume group file systems for rootvg   You can check how much space each file system has using the following command   df   I personally like to refine it with flags like -m and -g  in megabytes and gigabytes respectively   If you have free space available in your volume group  you can assign it to your file systems using the following command   chfs -a size  1G  home   As in change file system attribute size by adding 1 G where file system is  home  use man chfs for more instructions  This is a powerful tool  This example is for adjusting size  however you can do more with this command than that   Sources  http   www ibm com developerworks aix library au-rootvg    My own experience working with AIX

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su -sm      You can see every file and folder size  -sm Mb   -sk Kb  in the current directory like a list  This way runs in all Unix Linux environment

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Look for the commands du  disk usage  and df  disk free

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I love doing du -sh     sort -nr   less to sort by the largest files first

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Look for the commands du  disk usage  and df  disk free

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Use the df command   df -h

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

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