From: Chris Robinson 

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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