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df - Display Filesystem

To see how much space is available on a filesystem, use the df (display filesystem) command: df -k[< filesystem >].
For example,

df -k .

will display the filesystem statistics (in kilobytes) for the system you are currently located in. Specifically, if you're working in /home/anywhere,

username> df -k .
Filesystem            kbytes    used   avail capacity  Mounted on
nfsserver.weyr.com:/export/home
		     19510576 13122312 4437208    75%    /home

This shows the actual filesystem name, total kilobytes in the filesystem, the number of kilobytes currently in use, the number of kilobytes available, the percent used and the local filesystem name where the actual filesystem is mounted. In this example, the actual filesystem is on nfsserver.weyr.com and is named /export/home, there are 19,510,576 kb (or 19,510,576 meg) of disk space on /export/home of which 13,122,312 is used and 4,437,208 is available. (Note: used + avail is not equal to kbytes. This is because the system reserves a portion of disk space for itself. For this same reason, the capacity may be reported as over 100%.) The filesystem is 75% full and is mounted on the local filesystem named /home.

For more information on df, see the manual page (man df).