find the free space of a particular directory

Shell Programming and Scripting
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Hi Guys,

I want to find the free space of a particular directory,,

Regards,
Magesh

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The free space is for file systems...
It is true that sometimes it seem transparent for the name of the directory is the mount point of the filesystem... but not always...

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so we cant check for the free space of a directory as we do in windows???

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I suppose windows does the same: it gives the free space in the "partition"

That said your directory must be in a filesystem, so you will have to find the free space for that latter, and like in windows the free space is valid at that exact moment for the directory, but also for all other directories within that filesystem...

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do a man df