Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Stupid (but useful) one liner for Visually Monitoring Free Disk Space

I'm sure there is a better way of doing this (or a prebuilt tool that does) but I felt like doing some oldschool shell scripting while I update my local Ubuntu mirror for Intrepid Ibex.

One liner:
while true; do clear; date; df -ah; sleep 10; done

The output looks like:
Wed Nov 12 20:10:43 PST 2008
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1 72G 49G 20G 71% /
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /lib/init/rw
proc 0 0 0 - /proc
sysfs 0 0 0 - /sys
procbususb 0 0 0 - /proc/bus/usb
udev 10M 44K 10M 1% /dev
tmpfs 506M 0 506M 0% /dev/shm
devpts 0 0 0 - /dev/pts
/dev/hdb1 459G 59G 377G 14% /var/spool/apt-mirror

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