Uploaded November 2017 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
This video will show you how to find out how much disk space (the SD card) is used on your Raspberry Pi. Keep in mind that there two formats for displaying space, GB and GiB where a GB = 10^9 (1 Billion) and a GiB = 2^30 (1.074 Billion). This causes sizes to read differently.
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So generally if you buy an 8GB SD card, Linux will display the size as 7.44GiB.
Also, if you have the card partitioned, it will only show the space available on the partition Raspbian is installed on.
The command to run is df -h, which will show the total available and used space of all filesystems. The one for your SD card should be the top option.
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This video will show you how to find out how much disk space (the SD card) is used on your Raspberry Pi. Keep in mind that there two formats for displaying space, GB and GiB where a GB = 10^9 (1 Billion) and a GiB = 2^30 (1.074 Billion). This causes sizes to read differently.
I am using the Raspberry Pi 3B+: amzn.to/2Tnsc0l and recommend using a 2.5A minimum power supply, such as: amzn.to/2G0wcku I usually use whatever SD cards I can get cheaply, but recommend minimum 8GB and class 10, here's an example of a good cheap option: amzn.to/2MHJkvb If you need recommendations for good compatible Pi hardware just leave a comment below.
So generally if you buy an 8GB SD card, Linux will display the size as 7.44GiB.
Also, if you have the card partitioned, it will only show the space available on the partition Raspbian is installed on.
The command to run is df -h, which will show the total available and used space of all filesystems. The one for your SD card should be the top option.
Check out my facebook at: facebook.com/pages/All-How-2s/198429346974010
or my twitter: twitter.com/AllHow2s
Or my website where I have a lot of other great tutorials (such as how to take a screenshot, or how to get the start button back on Windows 8): allhow2s.com
