KDiskFree - Help (english)
KDiskFree provides you a graphical overview on your block devices (disks,
partitions, floppy-drive...) and their usage.
It reads the file /etc/fstab to get information about not mounted devices
and then periodically calls the df-command to look at actually mounted
devices.
Unmounted devices are shown in lightgray.
You may invoke KDiskFree ("kcmdf") from your KControlCenter under Information/Block
Devices
or directly by typing "kdf".
"kdf" is more light-weighted in the screen-size used, so if you want
to always have a KDiskFree open
(as I do) try "kdf" instead of "kcmdf".
KDiskFree was written 1998 by Michael Kropfberger (mkropfbe@edu.uni-klu.ac.at)
and underlies the terms of GPL.
Overview:
There are following columns which are shown in KDiskFree:
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Device
shows the filename of the listed device
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Type
shows the filesystem-type of the listed device (e.g. ext2, msdos, vfat,
minix...)
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Size
shows the maximum size of the device
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MountPoint
shows you, where the device is mounted to
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Free
shows you, how many Bytes (rounded to Gigabytes, Megabytes, Kilobytes
for convenience) are really available
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Full%
inicates the percentage of fullness; if this exceeds 95%, the whole
device entry is printed out in red
and a warning
message pops up on the active desktop.
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UsageBar
shows you the space-usage in a graphical way (blue
= full, white = available)
Features:
there are also many usable features included:
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left-, double-, mid- or right-click on the devicename of the device of
your interest to mount/unmount it immediately
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left-, double-, mid- or right-click on the MountPoint of the device of
your interest to open a FileManager (e.g. kfm) with the mountpoint as starting
directory
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you may also disable some of the columns you don't want to see (look at
Settings for further information)
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click on the Headers of the TabList to sort the devices accordingly (NOT
YET IMPLEMENTED!)
now no sorting is done...
Settings:
If you click on the Settings-Button you enroll a more-featured settings-window.
primarily you may want to change the update-frequency of KDiskFree.
Just use the scrollBar to select the appropriate frequency. If you
want to DISABLE the auto-update-feature, you only have to select 0 as your
update-frequency.
To force an update, just press the Apply-Button.
There you can enable/disable the shown columns of your device-Overview.
If you don't want to see the Filesystem-Type (which maybe is not of
that interest to you, because it doesn't change all 5 seconds) you
may just click on the Type-Header in your settings-window, so the
checked-icon under Type changes to a crossed-out-icon. To enable
it, just press the Type-Header again and the crossed-out-icon becomes
a checked-icon.
For convenience, you may also double-, mid- or right-click on the icons
to get the same effect.
There is also a LineEdit to enter the preferred FileManager used when
you click on the mountpoint of a device.
The %p will be substituted with the actual path (mountpoint)
To reset all to the default values, just click on the Defaults-Button
Comments to Michael Kropfberger mkropfbe@edu.uni-klu.ac.at.
Last changed: 22.January 1999