Total number of bytes used on hard drive

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I have a 2 Tb hard drive.

Using both Thunar and Caja, they show 140 Tb which is a rather large error.

How can I tell how many bytes are in use by my hard drive ?

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See - https://askubuntu.com/questions/5444/how-to-find-out-how-much-disk-space-is-remaining

A sufficient tool for what I think you want is pydf. Good luck fixit7.

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Pydf shows

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 1834G 8775M 1735G 0.5 […] /

But Gparted shows 37.93 Gb.

??

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Maybe you are reading Gparted wrong. Pydf matches my conky almost exactly. Don't know what to tell you ifixit7. Sorry.

Edit: My pydf shows this:

michael@D830:~$ pydf
Filesystem Size  Used Avail Use%                                    Mounted on 
/dev/sda7   20G 9475M 9515M 47.3 [###############.................] /          
/dev/sda6  345G  262G   66G 75.9 [########################........] /home/data4

conky shows this:

Edit2 & 3: Or you could use inxi -D. When I used this command, I got -

michael@D830:~$ inxi -D
Drives:    HDD Total Size: 2500.5GB (68.8% used) ID-1: /dev/sda model: WDC_WD5000BPVT size: 500.1GB
           ID-2: USB /dev/sdb model: My_Passport_0830 size: 2000.4GB

this may be more to your liking being information about all of the HDs? Good luck again.

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The value listed for my sda and sdb drives matches the sticker on the drives.

andy@7:/$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3.4G 0 3.4G 0% /dev
tmpfs 693M 9.4M 683M 2% /run
/dev/sda1 1.8T 8.0G 1.7T 1% /
tmpfs 3.4G 656K 3.4G 1% /dev/shm
tmpfs 5.0M 4.0K 5.0M 1% /run/lock
tmpfs 3.4G 0 3.4G 0% /sys/fs/cgroup
/dev/sdb2 100G 4.1G 91G 5% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB2
/dev/sdb1 97G 9.2G 83G 10% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB1
tmpfs 693M 36K 692M 1% /run/user/1000
/dev/sdb5 98G 60M 93G 1% /media/andy/MAXTOR_SDB5

I checked my install disk and it uses 3.3 Gb.

So I think that dfs figure of 8 Gb is probably pretty close.

Bottom line is that I have a ton of free space. :slight_smile:

I do not know what to say.

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I think that you’ve said all that you can. I’m done here fixit7. Maybe someone else will try to help you. As always, good luck.

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I thought it had been fixed since Caja 1.10…

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@fixit7

not sure if this is what your looking for...

df -hl --total | grep total

or

df -hlT --exclude-type=tmpfs --exclude-type=devtmpfs

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thanks mdooley for your help.

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@fixit7 You are entirely welcome fixit7.