From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 4:20:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mt.digitran.com (nwds0101a.mt.digitran.com [12.3.21.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AE2537B400 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 04:20:09 -0800 (PST) Received: from cm-206-31-81-96.gulfbreeze.mediacom.ispchannel.com [206.31.81.96] by mt.digitran.com with Novonyx SMTP Server $Revision: 2.71 $; Sun, 21 Jan 2001 07:14:17 -0500 (EDT) Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2001 06:19:28 -0600 (CST) From: Steve X-Sender: vandena@testbed.com To: Bryant Martin Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Checking Disk Space. In-Reply-To: <3A6AB6B3.69BDF655@cms-mpc.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG You can run your preference of the df command. See man df for particulars. ____ _ / ___|| |_ _____ _____ \___ \| __/ _ \ \ / / _ \ ___) | || __/\ V / __/ |____/ \__\___| \_/ \___| ========================= stevevan@vyrus.net On Sun, 21 Jan 2001, Bryant Martin wrote: > > I have an older FreeBSD installation, supplied to me by my ISP many > years ago. It was on a 1.6 GB EIDE drive and old 66 Mhz PC. > > Two weeks ago I decided to replace this server with a new PC, with 4 > GB EIDE, CD Drive and fast processor. Not knowing how to do it, I > pulled the 1.6 drive and found that Norton's `Ghost' could read it. I > copied it to the 4 GB offline. I put the 4 GB in the new PC and it ran > fine, except the first night, when it coughed and restared several > times. I think BSD must have been making fixes for its new environment? > > But, I would like to know how much of the 4 GB the single OS is > using. I have looked at my books and your site helps and can't seem to > find a command similar to dos' `dir', which will end its display with > `bytes available' info. > > This raises other issues: If it's using 1.6 GB only, who there can > help me (for money) by phone change the slice sizes, and maybe advise > about swap space and other matters, such as is the CD being seen, and is > the CD useful to me. This is a small installation of less than 60 > users. > > Too, I once wrote some PPP stuff to get my dial-up modem working on > COM1. That took me two months, and I've forgotten how I did it, > exactly, but it's working great. (This gives me ISP free from home > through my BSD at the office.) > > Can one of your experts help me look at my install and get the same > thing working for COM2, so I can hang another modem? > > Last point. It's been centuries since I upgraded (although I have > two newer CD sets at my office where I was thinking about trying). > Everything runs great on my system, but I need to consider the security > implications of staying back at my old level. > > Thanks for considering my pleas. > > Bryant Martin > > Commonwealth/Martin > 1700 Venable Street > Richmond, VA 23223-6308 > > Voice Mail: 800.336.6245 x103 (local 804.780.1700 x103) > My Desk and Fax: 804.783.2601 > Office Fax: 804.782.9876 > FTP: ftp://ftp.cms-mpc.com/ > [ip 209.99.158.2] > ftp://ftp.mail-production.com/ > [ip 206.225.19.3] > end_of_document > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message