Re: How to monitor file space free and used?

[Ole Laursen <olau hardworking dk>]

Paul Johnson <pauljohn ku edu> writes:

[...]

> 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.

My hardware monitor applet can monitor disk usage:

  http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/hardware-monitor/

It's little and beautiful with a couple of different viewer types. It
can't mount disks, though.

-- 
Ole Laursen
http://www.cs.auc.dk/~olau/