/rclone_about

title: "rclone about"
description: "Get quota information from the remote."
versionIntroduced: v1.41
# autogenerated - DO NOT EDIT, instead edit the source code in cmd/about/ and as part of making a release run "make commanddocs"

> **Official documentation:** [https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/](https://rclone.org/commands/rclone_about/)

rclone about

Get quota information from the remote.

Synopsis

Prints quota information about a remote to standard output. The output is typically used, free, quota and trash contents.

E.g. Typical output from `rclone about remote:` is:

Total:   17 GiB
Used:    7.444 GiB
Free:    1.315 GiB
Trashed: 100.000 MiB
Other:   8.241 GiB

Where the fields are:

• Total: Total size available.
• Used: Total size used.
• Free: Total space available to this user.
• Trashed: Total space used by trash.
• Other: Total amount in other storage (e.g. Gmail, Google Photos).
• Objects: Total number of objects in the storage.

All sizes are in number of bytes.

Applying a `--full` flag to the command prints the bytes in full, e.g.

Total:   18253611008
Used:    7993453766
Free:    1411001220
Trashed: 104857602
Other:   8849156022

A `--json` flag generates conveniently machine-readable output, e.g.

{
  "total": 18253611008,
  "used": 7993453766,
  "trashed": 104857602,
  "other": 8849156022,
  "free": 1411001220
}

Not all backends print all fields. Information is not included if it is not provided by a backend. Where the value is unlimited it is omitted.

Some backends does not support the `rclone about` command at all, see complete list in [documentation](https://rclone.org/overview/#optional-features).

rclone about remote: [flags]

Options

      --full   Full numbers instead of human-readable
  -h, --help   help for about
      --json   Format output as JSON

See the [global flags page](/flags/) for global options not listed here.

See Also

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• [rclone](/commands/rclone/) - Show help for rclone commands, flags and backends.

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