How to tell the free/used space on a drive in BionicPup32?

[Tattyjacket]

On a Windows or a Mac you simply do a right click on the drive and it will show you the free/used space.

So, how do you do this using Puppy?

Phil

[Tattyjacket]

You use GDmap

[bigpup]

Click on mount icon on desktop.
This opens Pmount.
It gives size info showing total amount and free amount for each drive partition.

Not sure if Bionicpup32 8.0 has it.
Partview
usually listed in menu->Filesystem->

[sheldonisaac]

On a Windows or a Mac you simply do a right click on the drive and it will show you the free/used space.

So, how do you do this using Puppy?

Hello, Phil; I have an AAO, also. The below, though, is on this Dell E6410.

df -h /mnt/sda2
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 12G 675M 12G 6% /mnt/sda2

[musher0]

Hello, Tattyjacket.

For a more complete idea of the set of tools that one has to do this,
one can alternately:

-- click on the disk container (looks like a green barrel) in the icon tray

or

-- run Pmount (only in a Puppy Linux)

or

-- open a rox window at /mnt
---- highlight a partition
---- hit Cntrl-P (P as in Properties)
(screen capture attached)

or

-- open a console, and type

Code: Select all

df -h | grep -v loop | grep -v fs | more

(screen capture attached)
Explanation of utilities and parameters:
df -h --> display bytes in human-readable format
grep -v --> skip the lines having the expressions "loop" or "fs" in them
more --> displays one console-full at a time (in case you have many partitions)

IHTH

[mikeslr]

pmount, mentioned by musher0, is probably in every Puppy. Once started, you still have to Left-Click a partition showing on the GUI which opens to learn how much free space is available. Consequently, partview, mentioned by bigpup, is probably the easiest way to find out the information you want. If your Puppy doesn't already have it, you can download the pet from here, http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewto ... 160#642160. It will function under any Puppy, and whether that Puppy is 32 or 64 bit.

If you have less than 10 partitions on your computer you may want the 2015 version which enables you to open gdmap from its GUI. That facility doesn't seem to be available in the later version.

[rockedge]

hover the mouse over the directory to find the size
right click
look down towards the bottom of the menu and find "Count"

click on it and wait.

[mikeslr]

hover the mouse over the directory to find the size
right click
look down towards the bottom of the menu and find "Count"

click on it and wait.

Thanks rockedge. One of Puppy's hidden gems.