df -k will give you the size of a formatted filesystem, not the raw capacity of a device. fdisk -l will give you capacity information. On Thu, Jan 19, 2012 at 3:30 PM, Andrew Galloway <Andrew [ dot ] Galloway [ at ] rcmp-grc [ dot ] gc [ dot ] ca> wrote: > df -k will give you the blocksize in 1k blocks > > >>>> "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> 2012-01-19 3:25 PM >>> > On Thu, 19 Jan 2012, John C Nash wrote: > >> Can we have an answer to RD's question as to how to get the capacity >> info easily? > > someone emailed me and pointed out that "fdisk" seems to give the > precise usable size. > > rday > > -- > > ======================================================================== > Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA > http://crashcourse.ca > > Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday > LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday > ======================================================================== > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux > _______________________________________________ > Linux mailing list > Linux [ at ] lists [ dot ] oclug [ dot ] on [ dot ] ca > http://oclug.on.ca/mailman/listinfo/linux