Ubuntu: Disk Usage Analyzer

Phil Sexton philsexton at skybest.com
Thu Jul 24 18:28:18 UTC 2008


Chaman Singh Verma wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> On my machine I have 250GB HD and I am 100% sure about it. but the Disk 
> Usage Analyzer seems to very
> generous and shows that
> 
>            Total filesystem capacity 452.1GB.
> 
> and here is df command:
> csv610 at blackhole:~$ df
> Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
> /dev/sda1            236310552   8400296 216000872   4% /
> varrun                 1026388       108   1026280   1% /var/run
> varlock                1026388         0   1026388   0% /var/lock
> udev                   1026388        44   1026344   1% /dev
> devshm                 1026388        12   1026376   1% /dev/shm
> lrm                    1026388     43744    982644   5% 
> /lib/modules/2.6.24-19-generic/volatile
> gvfs-fuse-daemon     236310552   8400296 216000872   4% /home/csv610/.gvfs
> /dev/scd0              1463168   1463168         0 100% /media/cdrom0
> csv610 at blackhole:~$
> 
> So can someone explain why Disk space reports 452GB ?

I don't trust some GUI tools.  Open a terminal and see what this 
command reports:

df -h




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