On Wed, 28 Jan 2004, cheryl tan wrote: > Hi again.. I would like to get the free disk space of the current > working directory only (partition where Redhat Linux is installed). I > have tried $ df -h but it shows the free disk space of all available > partitions. > > Thank you very much.. Cheryl, four lifetimes ago it seems now I had been proud that I knew everything there was to know about my Commodore Pet 32K b but was confronted with a new and daunting system, the PDP-11 running RSX and/or RSTS. I quickly realized that the key wasn't to know everything as that was impossible. The key was to know where to find everything... Asking your buddies is a fine thing at times but it's tiresome for them, and you may get your question answered, but you'll usually not get anything more and you won't, ultimately, learn much. You need to strike out on your own with the primary sources. In this case, I don't mean source code... Now, you would be absolutely correct if you criticized Linux, and all Unix clones, for having an absolutely awful online help utility, however, you do need to become famillar with what's available as such resources will help you answer questions as you have asked all on your own. The first thing to realize is that there are an awesome number of programs and that, generally speaking, they are all found in your PATH. Try this: echo $PATH Take a look: it consists of colon-delimited directory paths. Check out each path with 'ls', one at a time. Those are all the programs that can run if you type in their name at the system prompt. By convention, each one will give you help if you either run it with no arguments or if you run it with -h as an argument - or sometimes --help. You can usually get a lot more information if you type "man" and pass it the name of the command/utility as an argument. For example, try: man df "But how do I know which commands and utilities to check out?", you may ask. Great question, glad you asked. The answer is rather pathetic from an ideal sort of perspective, but it's all we've got and it's not so bad: apropos. For example, try: apropos disk You'll find a lot of great information. ...In the modern era, the next step is to try a web search. Lots of people use Google, but I also really like mamma.com as a search engine - there are lots of others. These resources can help you find what you want very quickly if only you learn to ask questions well. After trying these things would be the time to call in the big guns, not before, as otherwise people get tired of being your dictionary and doing your homework for you. Keep in mind, we were all novices once - you just want to get out of novice mode as quickly as reasonable! ...On the other hand, if you don't _want_ to advance beyond being a novice, you will quickly find your "friends" will loose patience with your unending questions. Either way, the odd stray simple question usually doesn't raise anyones ire, that's OK, but doing your homework first helps build respect. I hope this helps, Richard -- Richard Troy, Chief Scientist Science Tools Corporation rtroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, 510-567-9957, http://ScienceTools.com/ _______________________________________________ Redhat-devel-list mailing list Redhat-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-devel-list
