Determine space used on drive

[kubobbu]

This relates to hardware, but is probably a software question. I have a usb-connected backup drive attached, and the system and Dolphin both recognize it-- no problem.

But Dolphin does not give me any file sizes, or the total space used. Is there another software already part of Lucid that will show this, or do I have to install something new. Or, do I have to use some code in Konsole to get this info??

Thanks...
Bob

[Snowhog]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Dolphin does show space available info, but you have to activate it.

From Dolphin, click Settings > Configure Dolphin... > General > Status Bar and check Show space information and click Apply and then OK.

To see individual file size information, just switch to Details view.

[kubobbu]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Snowhog, that's great. I knew it was in there somewhere. But although I get a Size column header, and can even click on it and sort the list by size.... it only shows an actual size for two folders.... all the rest have item counts, not the size of the folder.

I'd really like to know how much data is on that drive... I'd like to move additional files there if there's room.

Bob

[kubobbu]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Just tried again... it appears that it gives the size of files, but the item count for folders. And nowhere do I see the figure I'd reallylike... X GB used out of Y GB on drive.

Bob

[Snowhog]

Re: Determine space used on drive

With the change made the amount of free space available within any partition shown in Places is shown in the lower right. This really is the important piece of information you are concerned about. Folders them selves don't show 'size.' But once you click on one, the total number of files, and the total size of those files, is displayed on the bottom left.

[claydoh]

Re: Determine space used on drive

the Device Notifier shows the size of my drives, and below it the amount of remaining space on mouse-over, as does the left pane in Dolphin (though it only gives a bar showing how full it is)

Snowhog's tip is supposed to show the remaining drivespace on the taskbar, so you'd have to loook in 2 places (on the same window) to get the desired info :/

[kubobbu]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Thanks to all... I see the figures you refer to at the lower left and right....

But the lower left shows "...

Sorry all... don't know what happened here... What I tried to say is that the lower right shows 10 folders, 2 files 21GB, and the right shows 27 GB Free. I guess the rest of the 80GB drive is in those 10 folders.... right?

I guess I can work with the 27GB Free figure to get of an idea of what I can add to the drive.

Thanks all..
Bob

[Snowhog]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Displays here.

[bsurfin]

Re: Determine space used on drive

I just tried the From Dolphin, click Settings > Configure Dolphin... > General > Status Bar and check Show space information and click Apply and then OK.

Now when in get into dolphin it flashes the info for like 1 second then goes away, I may need to reboot but I noticed on my system I can just click on device manager, put my mouse pointer over the usb device and it shows how much space is used.

[oshunluvr]

Re: Determine space used on drive

For those of us command line users:

df -h

Filesystem      Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md10       16G  14G 2.8G 83% /
none         4.0G 500K 4.0G  1% /dev
none         4.0G   0 4.0G  0% /dev/shm
none         4.0G 212K 4.0G  1% /var/run
none         4.0G   0 4.0G  0% /var/lock
none         4.0G   0 4.0G  0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/md6        16G  33M  16G  1% /tmp
/dev/sda2       400M  59M 342M 15% /grub2
/dev/sdb2       400M  76M 325M 19% /boot
server://shared    1.7T 1.6T 119G 94% /shared
server://home     100G 100G   0 100% /backup/home
/dev/md8       121G 115G 5.8G 96% /files

[Snowhog]

Re: Determine space used on drive

I prefer using:

df -htext4

-h [human readable output]
-t [file system type]

Here, I use ext4. Just type the name of your file system type after the -ht.

This produces space data on currently mounted partitions containing the file system type designated. It excludes the other "temporary" file systems created by the OS and that are mounted on root and so, already reflected in the root partition space data.

[vinnywright]

Re: Determine space used on drive

I prefer using:

df -htext4

-h [human readable output]
-t [file system type]

Here, I use ext4. Just type the name of your file system type after the -ht.

This produces space data on currently mounted partitions containing the file system type designated. It excludes the other "temporary" file systems created by the OS and that are mounted on root and so, already reflected in the root partition space data.

O .............nice tweek thanks I usuale hit the df -h but this sort's it niceley.

vinny@desktop:~$ df -htext3
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 20G 8.1G 11G 44% /
/dev/sda5 130G 97G 26G 79% /home
vinny@desktop:~$

thank's for the pointer

VINNY

[oshunluvr]

Re: Determine space used on drive

I use reiserfs, xfs, btrfs, vfat, ntfs and occasionally a few others

[Snowhog]

Re: Determine space used on drive

Update:

df -hText4 (note the upper case T) gives you the file system type in the output:

Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1   ext4  9.9G 3.3G 6.2G 35% /
/dev/sda6   ext4   25G 6.3G  18G 27% /home

If you want to see the space stats and the file system type on all your currently mounted devices, just omit the file system name:

df -hT

Filesystem  Type  Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1   ext4  9.9G 3.3G 6.2G 35% /
none   devtmpfs  998M 348K 998M  1% /dev
none     tmpfs  1003M   0 1003M  0% /dev/shm
none     tmpfs  1003M 104K 1002M  1% /var/run
none     tmpfs  1003M   0 1003M  0% /var/lock
none     tmpfs  1003M   0 1003M  0% /lib/init/rw
/dev/sda6   ext4   25G 6.3G  18G 27% /home
/dev/sdc1   vfat  2.0G  11M 2.0G  1% /media/4B56-07A2

[ubuntuku]

Re: Determine space used on drive

This relates to hardware, but is probably a software question. I have a usb-connected backup drive attached, and the system and Dolphin both recognize it-- no problem.

But Dolphin does not give me any file sizes, or the total space used. Is there another software already part of Lucid that will show this, or do I have to install something new. Or, do I have to use some code in Konsole to get this info??

Thanks...
Bob

Take the red pill, and paste this into terminal:

sudo apt-get install krusader