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du and df

du (Disk Usage)

shows a file or directory, and the file sizes 
(also see wikipedia)

# du -h
16K     ./lost+found
4.0K    ./cups
4.0K    ./samba/cores/smbd
4.0K    ./samba/cores/nmbd
12K     ./samba/cores
220K    ./samba
4.0K    ./news
4.0K    ./sandbox
32K     ./portage/elog
36K     ./portage
8.0K    ./mysql
4.0K    ./squeezecenter
4.0K    ./apache2
1020K   .

df (Disk Free)

shows the different drives and their usage
(also see wikipedia)
 
# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda2              74G  2.8G   67G   4% /
udev                   10M  188K  9.9M   2% /dev
/dev/hdb2             7.4G  7.4G     0 100% /var/log
/dev/hde1             233G  134G  100G  58% /disk1
/dev/hdf1             190G  164G   26G  87% /disk2
shm                    61M     0   61M   0% /dev/shm


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