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How do I see the capacity of the HDD running Ubuntu 11.10

Asked by jeff lenard

The former OS, Windows Vista, has the function "My Computer" with which one can open the HDD and see the total memory, memory used and memory remaining. How do I get to this HDD function with Ubuntu 11.1?

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#1

df -a command

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jeff lenard (adagio246) said : 		#2

Please excuse my ignirance. . .where to I enter the command "df" ? Please provide key-stroke route. TNX

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#3

df -h

bit more readable

Press CTRL+ALT+T to launch a terminal, run the command there

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jeff lenard (adagio246) said : 		#4

Lovely, tnx. . .another strike aginst my ignorance.

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actionparsnip (andrew-woodhead666) said : 		#5

Its not ignorance, it's just a new OS to you :)

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Jeet (gour-jitendrasingh) said : 		#6

Yup neways congrats you have complited first step of learning

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