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 alway 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:

• Device

shows the filename of the listed device
• Type

shows the filesystem-type of the listed device (e.g. ext2, msdos, vfat, minix...)
• Size

shows the maximum size of the device
• MountPoint

shows you, where the device is mounted to
• Free

shows you, how many Bytes (rounded to Gigabytes, Megabytes, Kilobytes for convenience) are really available
• Full%

inicates the percentage of fullness; if this exceeds 95%, the whole device entry is printed out in red
• UsageBar

shows you the space-usage in a graphical way (blue = full, white = available)

Features:

• left-, double-, mid- or right-click on the devicename of the device of your interest to mount/unmount it immediately
• 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
• you may also disable some of the columns you don't want to see (look at Settings for further information)
• 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.
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
 

Last changed: 27 May 1998