From: "Robert Comer" 

> Correct me if I'm wrong on this one?  There may well be some distro's that
> (for example) show the partitions on the desktop (e.g. show all mounted
> partitions as hda1, hda2 e.t.c.) and you can right-click these to see disk
> space usage?

That really doesn't make sense in Linux because of the way you mount
directories.  Think of the file system in Linux more like the way "My
Computer" works in Windows, and each partition (drive letter) in
Windows would be a separate directory in Linux. I know I'm not explaining
this well... :(

- Bob Comer


"Chris Robinson"  wrote in
message news:3E64651B.4212957{at}NOSPAMtotalise.co.uk...
> Yes, I've done this for a directory - that's not a problem.  I was talking
> more about a drive rather than a directory.  Fair enough, if you have each
> directory mounted on a seperate partition I suppose you're OK.  For
example,
> the mount point for my 40Gb drive is /home and there's nothing else on
there
> so I can check this.  It was a friend of mine who brought the point up as
he
> installed RedHat on a 1.2 Gb drive and let RedHat do the partitioning for
> him.  I *think* this leaves you with 3 or 4 partitions, /boot, swap and
> another (either "/" or /home - I'm not really sure).  You
wouldn't really
be
> concerned with the /boot and swap paritions, but the other big chunk is
what
> you'd want to check the disk space of.  This would house all your other
> directories and therefore would be hard to check the free space of without
> using an app (I think it was called KDiskFree that I'd used before,
although
> I'm not at a Linux box atm so can't check) that allows you to see usage
for a
> drive (e.g. hda2) rather than a directory.
>
> Correct me if I'm wrong on this one?  There may well be some distro's that
> (for example) show the partitions on the desktop (e.g. show all mounted
> partitions as hda1, hda2 e.t.c.) and you can right-click these to see disk
> space usage?
>
> Chris.
>
> Brian Hall wrote:
>
> > Chris Robinson wrote:
> >
> > > - Disk Space:
> > > I'd've thought that checking free space on a hard drive would be a
> > > simple task but this requires a small program (which took me a while
to
> > > find) to
> > > check.  I'm guessing that this is because of the way the Linux
> > > filesystem is arranged (i.e. you can't right-click a
"drive" and
select
> > > properties as everything is mounted in folders).
> >
> > Start Konqueror. Right click on a directory for the drive you want to
> > check and then click properties. It gives the free space / total space.
> >
> > Brian
>

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