[jgift]

Hi, second problem. Sorry to bother. Right now I'm using:
df -k | grep /dev/disk/*
To display current disk usage. The only problem is I'd rather only get the total in MB and/or % with disk name. I'm now getting even with the grep:

/dev/disk 24415936 6261288 17910492 25% /VolumeName


Any way to get:

Total MB % VolumeName

Thanks.

[cutterjohn]

you might want to man du and sort

identify the large users that can safely have files removed from the respective directories and or the entire directory structure itself.

If it is a common temporary directory you may also wish to write a script (shell, python, perl, etc.) and possibly add it as a cron job...

HINT: du | sort -nr | head -XXX
(the head as you will invariably have a million small files that you probably don't want to remove anyways, but you may wish to omit that part. Also XXX is some number, which would depend on your typical output, but this is just Q&D.)

[jgift]

I had been looking at du... Will look again... Thanks.

[Camelot]

If you really want MB, a simple shell pipe would resolve it

Here's an awk-based solution, but almost any shell processor could handle it:

Code:
df -k | awk '/disk/ {print $4/1024, " " $5, " ",  $6}'

[jgift]

That works great... Almost there. Thanks! Any way to get a tab in between the fields?

ie now:

10855.2 14% /Volumes/Scratch
2626.3 3% /Volumes/Swap
115538 1% /Volumes/Multimedia

[Gary Kerbaugh]

Originally posted by jgift:
That works great... Almost there. Thanks! Any way to get a tab in between the fields?

&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Yes, just put a tab in the quotes that now contain spaces. Of course, if you just hit the tab key, most shells will think you are asking for some sort of completion so you'll have to quote the tab by preceding the keystroke with <Command>-v.

[jgift]

Got it working with some playing around... Thanks for all the help. happy camper here