How to check the free space of SD card

[uniway]

Hello all
I'm pretty happy with my newly arrived Pi. Could you please tell me how to check the free space on my SD card? Also, is it possible to check the system status via web UI?

[tonyhughes]

In a terminal type:

df -Bm

To check free space on the file system.

[pluggy]

or even just

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df

Its a lot easier to remember, especially since everyone familiar with df likes different options.

[pjc123]

OK, now my preference. df -h (human readable) will give you an easier to read output (Kilobytes, Megabytes, Gigabytes), assuming you don't need one of the other specialized formats.

[klricks]

Hello all
I'm pretty happy with my newly arrived Pi. Could you please tell me how to check the free space on my SD card? Also, is it possible to check the system status via web UI?

If you have the GUI running then the file-manager shows used / total space.
Don't know about web UI but you can always log in with SSH or remote desktop and have full control.

[Jessie]

I like "df" myself with the -BM flag. I can't understand why the hell it dosn't automatically present the user with a readable format. Do I really care how many bytes there are? Why not display bits instead? Once a value greater than 1024 is reached it should convert to a bigger unit, and then suffix with a unit designator.

[tonyhughes]

Hello all
I'm pretty happy with my newly arrived Pi. Could you please tell me several different ways to check the free space on my SD card?, and begin a typical neo_Linux_Geek wanger-measuring competition about it, then moan about the tool that does it, even though it works perfectly and is easily configurable?

Why yes...

Yes we can...

[uniway]

Got it, thanks, Pi serves as my torrent downloader now

[jojopi]

I can't understand why the hell it dosn't automatically present the user with a readable format.

It could be worse. POSIX actually requires df to default to units of half-a-kibibyte. That is so daft that GNU df will comply only if you really ask it to:

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[email protected] ~ $ LC_ALL=C POSIXLY_CORRECT=1 df -P
Filesystem     512-blocks    Used Available Capacity Mounted on
rootfs           11365552 7785304   3049832      72% /
/dev/mmcblk0p1     114576   37936     76640      34% /boot

As for picking units automatically, or using suffixes, that would cause havoc to scripts that parse the output and compare values numerically.

I cannot understand why such behaviour is called "human readable" either. The normal rules of tabular data require units to be consistent for an entire column. And displayed in the column header, not on each line. I want to be able to see by the number of digits which values are big and small, not have to think about "800K" versus "1.3G".

Incidentally, "df -m" or "df -B1M" will allow the use of 1MiB blocks without the ugly "M" suffixes.

[tilaprimera]

I use

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df -h 

and it is pretty neat in showing the tags like G, M for the bytes available and used on the SD card. Here's a sample output.

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Filesystem                                              Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs                                                   19G   12G  6.1G  66% /
udev                                                     10M     0   10M   0% /dev
tmpfs                                                   387M  816K  386M   1% /run
/dev/disk/by-uuid/392338f6-005d-4a59-9bb0-ba15d7124355   19G   12G  6.1G  66% /
tmpfs                                                   5.0M     0  5.0M   0% /run/lock
tmpfs                                                   968M  988K  967M   1% /run/shm
/dev/sda7                                                79G   25G   50G  34% /home

[Ceppetto]

You type in the terminal "df" and it shows a bunch a numbers and we cannot understand you need to type "df -h" and gives it in gb