This command used with grep will return information about your computers memory.
jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total MemTotal: 12219468 kB SwapTotal: 70311928 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 |
If you want to list all of the hard disk partitions on your Linux system then this command is for you.
jason@darkstar ~ $ sudo /sbin/fdisk -l |
Use this command on a Linux system to list all of the supported file-systems available for mounting partitions on your Linux system.
jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ cat /proc/filesystems |
Use the fdisk -l command to list all partition names on your machine, if they are mounted or not.
jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ sudo fdisk -l | grep '^/dev' | cut -d' ' -f1 /dev/sda1 /dev/sda2 /dev/sda3 /dev/sda4 /dev/sda5 /dev/sda6 /dev/sdb1 /dev/sdc1 /dev/sdd1 /dev/sdd2 /dev/sdd3 /dev/sde1s |
And the du command is very useful for returning how much disk space a certain directory takes up.
jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ du -h ~/Documents/ | tail -n 1 7.2G /home/jason/Documents/ |