[ale] disk usage

[Geoffrey]

you want to run du against / if you want to know the usage of the root 
disk.  To determine the used space for a particular drive, you need to 
run du against the mount point of the drive and it must be mounted. If 
the drive has multiple file systems, run du agaist each and sum the amounts.

I wouldn't use a root partition in such a way that it would cause it to 
run out of space.  You could really screw up your system that way.  But, 
if that's the only space it'll fit do the following:

df /
du the_iso_image


df will tell the available space on /, du will tell the size of the iso 
image you're trying to move.  Simple math will tell you if you're good 
to do the move.



ChangingLINKS.com wrote:
> [root at computer /]# du -sm
> du: `./proc/2995/fd/4': No such file or directory
> 8273   
> 
> Does this mean I have like 8.2 gig of the drive in usage? I have a cdimage 
> that I am trying to move to root, and I keep getting an error mentioning that 
> I have no more room in the directory.
> 


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