Determine how much space is used and available in partition

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dpalme

I have a partition that I'm using for a backup system, but I'm finding it difficult to determine how much space is still available and what has been used for that partition. I don't need a breakdown of each file, all I want is a summary of the entire partition /backups.

Can someone point me in the right direction.
 
Re: Determine how much space is used and available in partit

Not sure if it's what you're looking for, but I just wanted to see how much disk space had in total on the HDD, so I used fdisk -s to get the name of the hard disk, which in this case was /dev/ada0, and followed it up with diskinfo ada0, which showed info about the disk, including how much space was left. I imagine it'll work for your partitions too.
 
Re: Determine how much space is used and available in partit

And if you want a nice way to figure out where the disk space is going (ie, who/what is using it all), have a look at sysutils/ncdu. It's a graphical version of du(1) that lets you drill down into directories. Very handy on systems with lots of users. :)
 
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