How to monitor file space free and used?

[Paul Johnson <pauljohn ku edu>]

I just installed RH8 with Gnome 2 and there are some things I used to 
take for granted in Gnome1.4 that I can't do any more.

One was in gmc.  Highlight a bunch of directories and choose the "show 
disk space" from the File menu item and it would tally up the total disk 
 space used.  Is there a Gnome 2 way to do that?

I was running the WindowMaker window manager, which I can't run now 
because of Gnome 2's changes.  So I need a good way to monitor how much 
file space is used on each partition.  Users constantly download mp3's 
and such, and when a partition fills all  the way up, it is bad. 
WindowMaker had a really great dock app to mount disks and show space 
used, it is called wmmount.  I can't find any comparable thing in Gnome 
2.  I want "just a little thing" that shows how much space is free.

Alternatively, it would be great if Nautilus status bar showed the free 
space, as does Windows Explorer.
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