Hack 92. Df Command Examples

by Ramesh

df command (disk free) displays the amount of total and free disk space available on the mounted filesystems.

  1. Syntax: df [options] [name]

How much GB of disk space is free on my system?

Use df -h as shown below. Option -h displays the values in human readable format (for example: K for Kb, M for Mb and G for Gb). In the sample output below, / filesystem has 17GB of disk space available and /home/user filesystem has 70GB available.

  1. # df –h
  2.  
  3. Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
  4. /dev/sda1             64G   44G   17G  73%   /
  5. /dev/sdb1            137G   67G   70G  49%   /home/user

What type of filesystem do I have on my system?

Option -T will display the information about the filesystem Type. In this example / and /home/user filesystems are ext2. Option -a will display all the filesystems, including the 0 size special filesystem used by the system.

  1. # df -Tha
  2. Filesystem    Type     Size  Used  Avail Use%  Mounted on
  3. /dev/sda1       ext2    64G    44G   17G  73%    /
  4. /dev/sdb1       ext2   137G    67G   70G  49%   /home/user
  5. none              proc         0         0        0    -        /proc
  6. none             sysfs         0         0        0    -        /sys
  7. none           devpts        0         0        0     -       /dev/pts
  8. none            tmpfs   2.0G          0  2.0G    0%   /dev/shm