(solved) Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

[Jook_roberts]

I just upgraded to Jaunty and seems quite solid already. I do have one problem though.

Dolphin now has this little slider magnifier in the bottom right corner. The free drive space used to be printed there. Since I regularly max out my drive space this was one of my favourite features.

Can the free drive space be viewed in another place? Failing that, does anyone know a terminal command to get the free drive space?

I have had a look for the answer to this, just not real hard. I am going to keep looking, if I find the answer I will update this post for others.

Thanks for any help.

[flarson]

Re: Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

The command you want is "df". Try "df -h" to get human readable format.

[Jook_roberts]

Re: Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

Just found df -m but df -h is even better.

Thanks

[Qqmike]

Re: Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

Jook_roberts, see
man du

For example, -s is sometimes helpful (summary).
Note that
-si
will give you powers of 1000, not 1024.
Etc.
I'm sure you already get it!

[flarson]

Re: Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

du is very helpful too. Where df shows disks, du -sh show the size of directories.

[Jook_roberts]

Re: Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone. Solved

Found something in Dolphin, for those who prefer GUI. (I don't mind using either)

Click on the drive you want information on, be that your home directory or a mounted drive etc. Click on the file menu and select properties. A small window will open and gives some useful information, including free drive space.

Thanks for all the help

[Qqmike]

Re: (solved) Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

Right-click is your friend
Same in GParted Live CD: right-click on a highlighted partition and you'll get Properties and drive space.


Maybe you know this stuff, but I'll drop it anyway. For example, GParted uses MiB and GiB. Each utility will use different measurements, either a power of 10 or a power of 2.
Thus:

GB and GiB (Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GiB)
-- getting the prefixes correct

Gibibyte (a contraction of giga binary byte) abbreviated GiB.
1 gibibyte = 2**30 bytes = 1,073,741,824 bytes = 1024 mebibytes
Thus:
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decimal kilobyte = 1000 bytes
binary Kibibyte = 1024 bytes (2**10)
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decimal Megabyte = 1000*1000 = 10**6 =1,000,000 bytes = MB (or M)
binary Mebibyte = 1024*1024 = 2**20 = 1,048,576 bytes = MiB (or Mi)
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decimal Gigabyte = Megabyte * 1000 = 10**9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes = GB (or G)
binary Gibibyte = Mebibyte * 1024 = 2**30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes = GiB (or Gi)

[sjhstorm]

Re: (solved) Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

In Dolphin go to settings; configure dolphin; general; under status bar tick show space information.

[flarson]

Re: (solved) Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

Nice.

[Jook_roberts]

Re: (solved) Free Drive space in Dolphin is gone.

This why we have a forum. I learn something new every time I post.