Adding available HDD space to drive icons?

I've been looking all over the place and thought I had seen this on a forum before but does anyone know how to place the available hard drive space on the drive icons themselves? I can't find the instructions I thought I once saw. I have two hard drives and the second I use strictly as a scratch disk for FCP. Lately, I've been working on more than one project and space is becoming an issue so would like to know at-a-glance how much I have available.
Can anyone help? Thank you!

Ktgrl, welcome, from the Finder under View scroll down to Show View Options now select the Show Item Info box.
Joe
Power Mac G4 Gigabit Ethernet Mac OS X (10.3.9)

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