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On 26-Feb-99 fred smith wrote: > On Thu, Feb 25, 1999 at 04:36:03PM -0800, Jeffrey S. Patton wrote: >> i know that this may sound like a stupid question, but is there an easy >> way >> to see how much space is left on a drive? > > Yes there is. > > Let me tell you how to find out what it is, rather than just telling > you what it is. Why? Because you'll want to know about some other command > next week (or next month) and you'll hafta ask again.... > > The 'apropos' command is your friend. When you want to know how much > free disk space there is, you think of key words that describe what > you want to do and try: > > apropos <keyword> > > for example: > > apropos free > or: > apropos disk > > and voila, it comes back with a couple screens full of stuff, one of > which is: > > df (1) - summarize free disk space > > so you would then type: > > man df > or: > man 1 df > > to read all about it. On my system, the 'apropos' database hadn't been initialized (altough the OS had been installed & running for weeks), so I ran 'makewhatis' as root. Then 'apropos' worked fine.