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[Mr_VeRiTy]

Hi, I'm trying to edit my conky theme, so that if I share it with people, it will correctly show how much free space is in their home partition, So I tried
${fs_free ~/} But It doesn't work, Is there another way to do this? 'Cos I can't just leave it as
${fs_free /home/luke} 'Cos unless their name is Luke it wont work.

I could just use
${fs_free /home/} But I also have a bar showing how much space is used in the home partition, and if I just use
${fs_used /home/} Then it wont be accurate if there is more than one user on the computer.

[Tibuda]

Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab?

[Mr_VeRiTy]

Can you post the contents of /etc/fstab?
I couldn't find a folder named fstab in etc.
EDIT: OH its a file, embarrassing, the contents of is

# /etc/fstab: static file system information.
#
# Use 'blkid -o value -s UUID' to print the universally unique identifier
# for a device; this may be used with UUID= as a more robust way to name
# devices that works even if disks are added and removed. See fstab(5).
#
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass>
proc /proc proc nodev,noexec,nosuid 0 0
# / was on /dev/sda1 during installation
UUID=c0b0bc91-0ada-4651-a71d-96ef363d7da0 / ext4 errors=remount-ro 0 1
# /home was on /dev/sda6 during installation
UUID=ee78cc1c-1995-4075-8f15-b4f74a09a124 /home ext4 defaults 0 2
# swap was on /dev/sda5 during installation
UUID=54d0c7a2-50f6-4862-9173-4041ed5197bc none swap sw 0 0

[MooseDog]

i use this to display /home stats:


Available${alignr}${fs_size /home}
Free${alignr}${fs_free /home}
Percent Free${alignr}${fs_free_perc /home}%

[Tibuda]

That's it. Only /home is on a separate partition, /home/$USER is not.

You can use ${exec du -s ~} to display the total size of any folder.

[Mr_VeRiTy]

That's it. Only /home is on a separate partition, /home/$USER is not.

You can use ${exec du -s ~} to display the total size of any folder.
So would
]${exec du -s ~} show the used space of /home/$user regardless of what the username is?

[Tibuda]

So would
]${exec du -s ~} show the used space of /home/$user regardless of what the username is?

yes. try running du -s ~ in a terminal. see also man du for more info on du.

[Mr_VeRiTy]

yes. try running du -s ~ in a terminal. see also man du for more info on du.

It works, but is there any way I can get it to output in Gigabytes instead of megabytes?

[Tibuda]

It works, but is there any way I can get it to output in Gigabytes instead of megabytes?

Yes! Use the -B argument.

du -s -B G ~

[Mr_VeRiTy]

Yes! Use the -B argument.

du -s -B G ~

Thanks :)

[Tibuda]

You are welcome! :)