Lorry <fish at slava.net> wrote: > > Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote: > > > > how much free space do you have on the partition you're downloading > > files to? > > > good question... probably 2G but I honestly don't remember. Where do I > look for this info? Took me forever to find this out when I started using Linux. To find free disk space, use `df' (disk free) To find used disk space, use `du' (disk used) Of course, consult man pages, etc... One note: on Linux, these utilities almost always report sizes in kilobyte chunks. On other Unix variants, sizes are often reported in filesystem blocks, which can range from 512 Bytes (maybe less) to 4kBytes and higher. -- _ _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ ___ _ _ __ It's a Mexican standoff. / \/ \(_)| ' // ._\ / - \(_)/ ./| ' /(__ Only we ain't got no \_||_/|_||_|_\\___/ \_-_/|_|\__\|_|_\ __) Mexicans. [ Mike Hicks | http://umn.edu/~hick0088/ | mailto:hick0088 at tc.umn.edu ] -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 232 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20011017/32cc14ef/attachment.pgp