Size Size Size!

[rachaelz]

Hello-

Just brought up this memory info on my system and am trying to decypher it:

total: used: free: shared: buffers: cached:
Mem: 131022848 123953152 7069696 66666496 20692992 58974208
Swap: 263168000 5136384 258031616
MemTotal: 127952 kB
MemFree: 6904 kB
MemShared: 65104 kB
Buffers: 20208 kB
Cached: 57592 kB
SwapTotal: 257000 kB
SwapFree: 251984 kB

Just trying to find out how much storage space I have on my hard drive for programs and web sites. Do I only have 6904 mb after a 12 gig. hard drive? Sheesh. (Please be gentle I'm new to Linux).

Thanks,

Rachael Zona

[Shad]

What you have there is the usage of RAM. So you have 6906kb free of RAM, at that particualr moment of time.

A few command line tools that will be usefull are du and ls

ls -sh will show the contents of the current directory in size (-s) and in a human readable, kb mb gb,(-h) format.

Check man du for various options, I forget them right now, and am at work on a Winders machine.

If you are in X (GUI) try gdiskfree for a Graphical visualization of space left on partions. You will need to have Gnome installed to use it. (and it might be slightly different command, Old age and the memory goes)

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[rachaelz]

Thanks for the help Shad. I'll look into these when I get home. Take care.

R.Z.

[ColdPack]

df will tell you how much disk space you have left. I think df -a gives you even more thorough info but I may be wrong. At a windows desk right now. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/rolleyes.gif

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