[ale] Disk Free

[wizard]

Thanks to all, du did the trick.
Ed.

Phrostie wrote:
> 
> Try du.
> 
> On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, you wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > df gives you the size of a disk, space used, space free, etc...
> >
> > I'm trying to find the amount of space used by a subdirectory in a
> > filesystem. running df /var, for example, gives me info on the root
> > disk, which is where var is currently located.
> >
> > I am adding 1 or 2 more drives to my system and want to more
> > intelligently partition and mount them. In NT the properties option
> > gives you the amount of space used by a directory and all of it's
> > subdirectories. I just Know there is something similar for Linux:)
> >
> > Ed.
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