Re: yet another reason not to buy vista...

In <MtVLi.28355$x%6.22619@pd7urf2no>, on Sun, 30 Sep 2007 22:32:12 GMT,
Noozer, dont.spam@xxxxxxx wrote:

You had to go to a third party to find out how
to do something as simple as find out how much free disk space you had.
That's what I said... "Relying on someone else." Where on the system itself
does it tell you to use DF?

$ apropos disk
cfdisk (8) - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux
df (1) - report file system disk space usage
....
<more disk related commands>

.

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