[NTLUG:Discuss] How does non-admin check for available disk space when...

[Chris Cox]

Richard Geoffrion wrote:
> Chris Cox wrote:
>> Richard Geoffrion wrote:
>>   
>>> there is no access to read the table of mounted filesystems?
>>>
>>> df doesn't work...so how does a regular user find out how much disk 
>>> space is available and/or in-use?   Well the in-use could be du....
>>>     
>> df DOES work.  The better question is why doesn't yours
>> work?? (puzzled)
>>   
> the hosting provider doesn't allow me to get to the 'real' /etc dir ?? 
> That's all I can figure.
...
> du is to calculate the size of files - check!
> 'du -x' is good to keep 'du' on one file system - check!
> 
> I was just curious if there was another way to use du to calculate 
> usage.  I'm probably out of luck on this issue.
> 
> 

Your provider is not thinking clearly (sorry).

du won't show you the filesystem overhead for things like
journaling.  Send a nasty-gram to your hosting provider.

I know that my hosting provider (which does allow me
to see filesystem info) also provides a web interface
to show me disk utilization... maybe your does the same
and you can "scrape" that data??