Linux Tip: Checking Disk Space – df
If you ever need to check disk space on a Linux system its easy, use the df function:
user@ubuntu:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 20G 4.3G 15G 23% /
none 182M 252K 182M 1% /dev
none 186M 252K 186M 1% /dev/shm
none 186M 196K 186M 1% /var/run
none 186M 0 186M 0% /var/lock
none 186M 0 186M 0% /lib/init/rw
.host:/ 298G 47G 252G 16% /mnt/hgfs
Voila!