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title: About the filesystem Resource
platform: linux
---

# filesystem

Use the `filesystem` InSpec resource to audit filesystem disk space usage.

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## Availability

### Installation

This resource is distributed along with InSpec itself. You can use it automatically.

### Version

This resource first became available in v1.51.0 of InSpec.

## Syntax

A `filesystem` resource block declares tests for disk space in a partition:

    describe filesystem('/') do
      its('size') { should be >= 32000 }
    end

where

* `filesystem('/')` states that the resource will look at the root (/) partition.
* `size` is measured in kilobytes (KB).

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## Resource Property Examples

The following examples show how to use this InSpec audit resource.

### Test if the root partition is greater than 32000 KB

    describe filesystem('/') do
      its('size') { should be >= 32000 }
    end

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## Matchers

For a full list of available matchers, please visit our [matchers page](https://www.inspec.io/docs/reference/matchers/).

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