From owner-freebsd-newbies Wed Aug 19 20:15:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA00782 for freebsd-newbies-outgoing; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:15:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mbox.ualr.edu (mbox.ualr.edu [144.167.10.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA00770 for ; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 20:15:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeroyce@athena.ualr.edu) Received: from odin.ualr.edu by UALR.EDU (PMDF V4.2-11 #15587) id <01J0SXRWP49S0084D1@UALR.EDU>; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:14:29 CDT Received: from athena.ualr.edu ([144.167.7.1]) by athena.ualr.edu with ESMTP; Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:14:20 -0500 Date: Wed, 19 Aug 1998 22:14:17 -0500 From: Joe Subject: Re: checking amount of disk space left? To: Daniel Minoru Saito , FreeBSD Newbies List Message-id: <35DB9488.CBF4F0DA@athena.ualr.edu> X-Envelope-to: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.0.35 i686) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: <003701bdcbd8$ec3fcaa0$5b8bf7ca@periscope.digital-canvas.com> Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Pardon me for trying to invoke a little humor; I assumed that anyone using FreeBSD was intelligent enough to recognize a little sarcasism. Well, you know what they say about assuming....it makes an ASS out of U and ME. ATTENTION ALL NEWBIES: Do not, I say, do not log in as root and and issue the command "rm -r *" unless you really want to have a bad day. Disclaimer: None of these opinions are mine or anyone elses. Elvis is king! "Thank you, thank you very much" - Elvis, 1935-1977 Daniel Minoru Saito wrote: > I don't feel that is a responsible thread you are starting Joe. Granted > that you are posting in FreeBSD Newbies -- There is a chance that someone > might "inactuality" do this. So please for future threads such as this. > Take moral sense of responsibility in conducting posting such as this. > Looking at the fact that the people that are reading this mailinglist are > "newbies".. > > Daniel Saito > > "The law, in its majestic equality, forbids rich and poor alike to sleep > under bridges, beg in the streets or steal bread." -- Anatole France > (1844-1924), French author. The Red Lily, ch. 7 (1894). > > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe > Subject: Re: checking amount of disk space left? > > >And if you run out of disk space, a "rm -r *" will give you all the space > you > >need...and if you really feel stupid, log in as root and cd to / first.... > > > > > > > >Salvatore Greco wrote: > > > >> Hiya > >> > >> df -k will give all of the filesystem's mounted and their disk usage and > free > >> space. -- There are no secret messages in this signature file. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message