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NAME

df - show free disk space

SYNOPSIS

df [ -f ] [ -d ] [ -? | -h ] [ d: ]

DESCRIPTION

Df displays a space usage statistic for storage devices. A storage device is a floppy diskette, a hard disk, a RAM disk, or any other device you can store your files on. If you happen to have more than one partition on a storage device each partition is reported independently. Drives 'join'ed to another drive's subdirectory are reported with their real characteristics, unlike MS-D*S 'dir' and 'chkdsk' command.

The output consists of columns showing total device space and currently available free space in bytes, amount of free space expressed in percent of total space, and at last the drive designator for the device. The following is an example output:

        Total space     Free space            Drive
            362'496        131'072     36%      a:
          2'060'288      1'155'072     56%      c:
         40'607'744      8'216'576     20%      d:
         67'051'520      5'554'176      8%      e:
         12'976'128      7'417'856     57%      f:
            518'912        518'912    100%      g:

OPTIONS

-f: By default, floppy diskettes aren't included in the report for speed reasons. With the '-f' switch you can cause the program the investigate the floppy or floppies as well. If you don't have a floppy in the drive, Df continues without an error message.
-d: If, for whatever reason, you don't want to include the harddisks in the output, include the '-d' switch on the command line.
d:: You can direct Df to only display the space statistic for drive 'd:'.

AUTHOR

Urs Zurbuchen, Netto Software Design, 5200 Windisch, Switzerland

BUGS

Df does not work on Novell Netware networks.

Substituted drives are also reported (cf. 'subst').

BUG REPORTS TO

Urs Zurbuchen zu%ethz@cernvax

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