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Show Allocated / Used Filesystem Space Summary

April 17, 2012 – 9:31 pm
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On servers with many filesystems calculating filesystem space utilization summary can get very tedious. Below is a simple script that will summarize all filesystems and provide you will the totals for allocated and used space in GB.