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nfsstat(1) - display NFS statistics {oss}

df(1) - display free disk space {oss}

mt eject(1) - magnetic tape and removable media manipulating program {oss}

chio(1) - medium changer control utility {oss}

du(1) - display disk usage statistics {oss}

iostat(8) - report I/O statistics {oss}

amq(8) - automounter query tool {oss}

ncheck_ffs(8) - generate names from inode-numbers {oss}

quot(8) - display disk space occupied by each user {oss}

quotaon quotaoff(8) - turn filesystem quotas on and off {oss}

quotacheck(8) - filesystem quota consistency checker {oss}

repquota(8) - summarize quotas for a file system {oss}

locate.updatedb(8) - update locate database {oss}

rquotad rpc.rquotad(8) - remote quota server {oss}

showmount(8) - show remote nfs mounts on host {oss}

mtree(8) - map a directory hierarchy {oss}

pstat(8) - display system data structures {oss}

p5-Filesys-DiskSpace-0.05 - Perl equivalent of statfs(2)

xdu-3.0_1 - Graphically display output of du

xfsm-1.99 - X File System Monitor

fam-2.6.4 - A file alteration monitor

agef - Show disk usage by file age {oss}

derez - Find and remove stale files from a disk {oss}

diskhog2 - A diskquota-system for non-BSD sites {oss}

Nannie - System file watcher and notification program {GPL}

mount unmount (2) - mount or dismount a filesystem {oss}

getmntinfo (3) - get information about mounted file systems {oss}

getfsstat (2) - get list of all mounted file systems {oss}

sync (2) - synchronize disk block in-core status with that on disk {oss}

getbsize (3) - get user block size {oss}

getfsent getfsspec getfsfile setfsent endfsent (3) - get file system descriptor file entry {oss}

readlabelfs (3) - read disklabel filesystem type {oss}

getmaxpartitions (3) - get the maximum number of partitions allowed per disk {oss}

statfs (2) - get file system statistics {oss}

nfssvc (2) - NFS services {oss}

quotactl (2) - manipulate filesystem quotas {oss}

swapon (2) - add a swap device for interleaved paging/swapping {oss}

getdiskbyname (3) - get generic disk description by its name {oss}

getrawpartition (3) - get the system ``raw'' partition {oss}

Iscdrom.C - Determine if a given drive is a CD-ROM {oss,msdos}

Isnetdr.C - Determine is a drive is local or remote {oss,msdos}

Isramdsk.C - Determine if a drive is a RAM disk {oss,msdos}

Iswprot.C - Determine is a floppy is write protected {oss,msdos}

Nwlinname.C - Retrieve NetWare login name {oss,msdos}

File::Df - The Unix df command tells you how full your disks are. Should your Perl programs need to know, they can use this module. [Perl] {oss}

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See also File System Operations - Operations for entire file-systems (quotas, configuration, consistency, mount, unmount, et al)

See also File Information - Obtaining file information (status, configuration, et al)

See also Specific Types of File Systems - Specific forms of file systems. DFS, NFS, MS-DOS, etc.

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