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:


Features:

there are also many usable features included:
 


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