Linux and data storage?

[Thomas Stivers]

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On Mon, Sep 27 2004 at 12:16:18PM -0700, Sean M McMahon wrote:
> You mention  using du -ms to find out how much data you have.  What is the 
> difference between that and using df -k .  ?

You use df to tell you how much space is used and free in a partition.
OTOH du should be used to tell how much space the files and directories
within a directory use. I.E. when I do "du -h" in my home dir I find out
how much space my home directory is using. When I do "df -h ." I find
out how much of the file system containing the current directory is
being used and how much is free.

Check the man pages to find out what all the options do.

HTH

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Thomas Stivers	e-mail: stivers_t at tomass.dyndns.org
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