How can i know my Filesystem and its current usage in my
prod UNIX system?

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How can i know my Filesystem and its current usage in my prod UNIX system?..

Answer / vengadesh

df -k can give you Filesystem usage.
bdf in case of HP-UX

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How can i know my Filesystem and its current usage in my prod UNIX system?..

Answer / arpita das

df -k will give the filesystem usage in kilobytes.
if you do df -a it will giv eth efile system usage as well
as the usage of its partitions also.You can check the
example also..
E.g:1--

bash-3.00$ df -k

Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/sda1 50394964 8614616 39220392 19% /
none 1032140 158900 873240
16% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 98403344 527484 92877236
1% /viewstore


E.g:2--

bash-3.00$ df -a
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%
Mounted on
/dev/sda1 50394964 8614676 39220332 19% /
none 0 0 0 -
/proc
none 0 0 0 - /sys
none 0 0 0 -
/dev/pts
usbfs 0 0 0 -
/proc/bus/usb
none 1032140 158900 873240
16% /dev/shm
/dev/sda3 98403344 527484 92877236
1% /viewstore
none 0 0 0 -
/proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
sunrpc 0 0 0 -
/var/lib/nfs/rpc_pipefs
automount(pid5461) 0 0 0 - /net
automount(pid5538) 0 0 0 -
/home
nfsd 0 0 0 -
/proc/fs/nfsd

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How can i know my Filesystem and its current usage in my prod UNIX system?..

Answer / archana

df -csh gives the current disk usage

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How can i know my Filesystem and its current usage in my prod UNIX system?..

Answer / sreehari ck

df -h

this command also display ur filesystem size (used as well
as avilable in human readable format )

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