Is there a command line tool which shows in real time how much space remains on my external hard drive?
Debian – Real time cmd tool to show HDD space remaining
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Is there a command line tool which shows in real time how much space remains on my external hard drive?
Best Answer
As Julie said, you can use
df
to display free space, passing it either the mount point or the device name:You'll get something like this:
To run it continuously, use
watch
. Default update interval is 2 seconds, but you can tweak that with--interval
: