# The &kdiskfree; Handbook

&Jonathan.Singer; &Jonathan.Singer.mail;
&Michael.Kropfberger; &Michael.Kropfberger.mail;
2000-2002
&Jonathan.Singer;
&FDLNotice;
2016-04-13
Applications 16.08

&kdiskfree; displays available file devices, along with information about them.

KDE
kdf
kdeutils
disks
devices
mount
unmount

## Introduction

&kdiskfree; displays the available file devices (hard drive partitions, floppy and &CD; drives, USB sticks &etc;) along with information on their capacity, free space, type and mount point. It also allows you to mount and unmount drives and view them in a file manager.

&kdiskfree; is similar to the &systemsettings; Storage Devices module, but takes up less screen space. It is useful if you want to keep a &kdiskfree; window available at all times.

## Using &kdiskfree;

### Starting &kdiskfree;

Type ``kdf`` at a command prompt or select KDiskFree from the System group in the application launcher. The standard &Qt; and &kde; command options are available, and can be listed by entering ``kdf` `--help`` at the command prompt.

To run the application as an applet in the systemtray, use System KwikDisk in application launcher.

The features of &kdiskfree; are also available in the &systemsettings; module Storage Devices.

### The Main window

The main &kdiskfree; window displays the available file devices.

Normally, the following pieces of information are included:

&kdiskfree; Screen
&kdiskfree; Screen

- an icon depicting the type of storage

- device name

- filesystem type

- total size

- mount point

- free disk space

- the percentage of space used as a number and as a graph.

Left clicking on the header of a particular column sorts the devices according to that variable. A second left click sorts in the opposite order.

Clicking with the &RMB; on a row pops up a menu. If that device is not currently mounted, the Mount Device option is available. If the device is mounted, it can be unmounted by choosing Unmount Device. Selecting Open in File Manager opens a new window with a graphical view of the files on that device.

The setting for the file manager used by &kdiskfree; is independent from the choice in the &systemsettings; module Default Applications.

### Menu Bar and Configuration

#### The File Menu

F5 File Update

  Immediately updates the display to reflect the current status

&Ctrl;Q File Quit

  Closes &kdiskfree;

Additionally &kdiskfree; has some common &kde; Settings and Help menu items, for more information read the sections about the Settings Menu and Help Menu of the &kde; Fundamentals.

#### The Settings Dialog

Configure &kdiskfree; Screen
Configure &kdiskfree; Screen

This dialog has two tabbed windows, General Settings and Mount Commands

General Settings

  Click on the word visible or hidden to turn display of an data field on or off.

  Change the update frequency by editing the value. The value in the box is the interval (in seconds) between updates of the &kdiskfree; display to reflect the current status.

  The File Manager setting controls the command executed when the Open Filemanager popup menu item is selected.

  There are also two check boxes. One controls if a file manager window will be automatically opened when a device is mounted. The other causes an alert window to pop up if a disk gets critically full.

Mount Commands

  Allows the user to specify the mount and unmount commands for a given device, as well as the icon used to represent it. More information on these commands can be found on the man page for mount (type ``man` `mount`` at the command prompt).

## Credits and License

&kdiskfree;

Program Copyright © 1998-2000 &Michael.Kropfberger; &Michael.Kropfberger.mail;

Documentation Copyright © 2000 &Jonathan.Singer; &Jonathan.Singer.mail;

&underFDL; &underGPL;

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