Quick way to view your hdd stats.
 
 
[root@intmail root]# df -h
 
Filesystem            Size    Used   Avail  Use%    Mounted on
/dev/md0             73G    2.8G    66G    4%            /
none                    504M     0      503M  0%            /dev/shm
 
 
The -h is for "Human readable" basically tells us GB verse MB etc.  
 
[root@intmail root]# df --help 
 
This will display more information about the df command.
 
Just get my diskinfo script from 
http://www.thenerdshow.com/index.php?page=installation
 
It lists partitions underneath physical drives, so I don't get confused about which is which.
 
Like its predacessor df, it runs as a normal user. We don't need root. Run with -i for interactive.
 
Here it is called diskinfo but to save typing I secretly rename my copy to dl. [img]<___base_url___>/uploads/emoticons/default_laugh.png[/img]
 
$ diskinfo -i
 
  Drive    Size    Description     (Removables are highlighted in blue)
/dev/fd0 Empty /dev/floppy-fd0 
platform:floppy disk
/dev/sda 37G ATA SAMSUNG SV4002H
 ├─/dev/sda1 102M 
mounted on /boot type ext3
 ├─/dev/sda2 36G 
mounted on / type ext3
 └─/dev/sda3 1G 
mounted on swap type swap
/dev/sdb 114G ATA Maxtor 6Y120P0
 └─/dev/sdb1 114G
/dev/sr0 Empty /dev/dvdrw3 
HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GSA-H55N