Dear Sean, No, there isn't. You'd have to parse the df output to get that value. I suggest using the -P switch to df, so you don't have to deal with multi-line output per filesystem. The following will return kilobytes of disk space used (third column in the df -kP output): df -kP |grep -v ^Filesystem |awk '{sum += $3} END { print sum; } ' Best, -at On 8/11/08, Sean Carolan <scarolan at gmail.com> wrote: > Is there a flag for the df command to get the total disk space used on > all filesystems as one number? I have a server with a lot of mounted > shares. I'm looking for a simple way to measure rate of data growth > across all shares as one total value. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >