[NTLUG:Discuss] How To Find Out Free Disk Space

[jv]

Actually, I'm always logging in as root.  I know that's normally a security
risk but I'm the only one using this machine.  Also, I don't want to go
through the hassle of changing all the permissions on all the apps that I
use.

Jaime Villela
jvillela at airmail.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Brown <hbrown at byu.edu>
To: <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 17, 1999 10:28 AM
Subject: Re: [NTLUG:Discuss] How To Find Out Free Disk Space


> The problem probably stems from the fact that Fat partitions don't know
> about ownership/permissions.  So, if you can get it to work as root but
> not as a regular user that will indicate the permissions issue (i.e.
> XCDroast can't write to the Fat partition).  If that is the case then
> changing the permissions with which the partition is mounted will fix
> that (man fstab and man mount).
>
> FWIW
> Hugh
>
>
> > jv wrote:
> >
> > I finally was able to compile SCSI emulation into my kernel (thank you
> > Maximum Linux!) and I can now start XCDroast without errors.  The
> > problem is that when I tried to burn an audio CD it told me I didn't
> > have enough disk space (I specified the 2 GB Win98 partition as the
> > cache location).  Does anyone know what may be causing this?  Also,
> > how can I tell how much free space I have left?  Running KDE on
> > OpenLinux 2.3.
> >
> >
> > Jaime Villela
> > jvillela at airmail.net
>
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