List all hard disk storage in your PC using inxi.
How to get the serial number of a disk on Linux.
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Get information about disc space usage in a folder with the gdu utility.
A very useful utility for Linux to keep track of disk space usage on Linux.
Read MoreHow to get a count of how much disk space your Linux installation is taking up.
Getting information about how much disk space your Linux installation is taking up is very easy. The du command can print disk usage. This example is used on my WSL2 Kali Linux installation. ┌──(john㉿DESKTOP-PF01IEE)-[~] └─$ sudo du -hl –exclude=/{proc,sys,dev,run,mnt} / | awk ‘END {print $1 " Space used on "…
Read MoreWindows 8.1 still very annoying and insecure these days.
Windows 8.1 at the moment is giving me a lot of problems. There is constant disk activity at 0.1 megabytes per second. This is very annoying, there are Windows services doing this, but it only recently started. T think it is better to use Linux instead, which does not have…
Read MoreLinux more durable than ever before.
The Linux distributions we use today are more stable and reliable than ever before. I remember when filling up your hard drive would lead to a kernel panic, but today my hard disk was at 0% space and I just got a notification popup telling me that, so I could…
Read MoreGet information about filesystem usage with the MATE Disk Usage Analyser.
The MATE Disk Usage Analyser is a very good way to get disk usage information in a graphical fashion. The above example, shows the usage on the whole Linux filesystem. MATE Disk Usage Analyser showing information about my home directory. The user can click each folder to view disk usage…
Read MoreA useful posting explaining why Linux does not need defragmenting.
If you are interested in how the Linux filesystem works, then this is a posting you really need to read: http://geekblog.oneandoneis2.org/index.php/2006/08/17/why_doesn_t_linux_need_defragmenting. This is a posting explaining how the Linux filesystem stores file and why it does not need to defragment the filesystem as it stores files more efficiently. I have…
Read MoreSome very useful Powershell tricks.
Print the current date and time with Powershell. "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date)"{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) This is an example of what this will give you. PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss – d/M/yy}" -f (get-date) Tuesday – 08:42:05 – 30/1/18PS C:\Users\jason> "{0:dddd – hh:mm:ss -…
Read MoreMonitor disk latency with the ioping command on Linux.
How will your HDD perform under load? Measuring disk latency on Linux is very easy if the right command is used. This useful utility makes a difficult task very simple. Here is an example of the usage. ubuntu ~ $ sudo ioping /dev/xvda 4.0 KiB from /dev/xvda (device 30.0 GiB):…
Read MoreA few ways to list disk information in Linux Mint.
There are a few ways in Linux Mint to view disk information. The Disks utility found at Preferences->Hardware-Disks allows the viewing of hard disk information. This displays all of the partitions and their types on a selected physical disk. There are options for unmounting partitions, deleting a partition and even…
Read MoreWill we ever completely replace the hard drive?
I am wondering, if due to the popularity of the SSD solid state hard drives, are we going to see the end of the conventional hard disk with metal platters and read-write heads that skitter over the surface floating on a cushion of air. The SSD drives are getting better…
Read MoreHow to format a partition in Linux. This is very easy.
Formatting a partition in Linux is very easy when you use the mkfs command. In this example I am formatting a 35 gigabyte partition with an EXT4 file-system. I am intending to try out a Linux From Scratch build and I want to have a dedicated partition to build this…
Read MoreHard drive technology from the early days to the latest super capacity drives.
The hard disk drive has come a long way since the first one I used, a 10 megabyte capacity beast. In 1979, you would have paid US$5,350,00 for an external hard drive housing that could store 10 megabytes of data. That would have been a luxury item back then. Another…
Read MoreHow to rip a DVD in high quality on Linux Mint 14 using OGMRip DVD Encoder.
The OGMRip DVD Encoder. This is used to rip a DVD in high quality to your hard disk drive. To load a DVD disc put a disc in the drive and then click the Load button to load the disc into the application. Then click the Extract button and the…
Read MoreUsing the iostat command to keep track of disk usage on Linux.
This example shows the iostat command printing information about disk usage on my Ubuntu system. jason@jason-desktop:~$ iostat Linux 4.6.0-rc1-jason (jason-desktop) 01/05/16 _x86_64_ (4 CPU) avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 2.50 0.43 1.28 24.37 0.00 71.42 Device: tps kB_read/s kB_wrtn/s kB_read kB_wrtn sda 1.49 147.22 0.00 64455…
Read MoreHow to use aliases with the bash shell and some other useful Linux tricks.
Are you wanting to create an alias and you want to see how they are done? Well a Linux distribution should come with some aliases that are already created for you and you can type the alias ls command to see how one is created. ubuntu@ubuntu:~$ alias ls alias ls=’ls…
Read MoreUseful commands for getting information about your computers memory status and hard drives.
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: 0jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total MemTotal: 12219468 kB SwapTotal: 70311928 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB HugePages_Total:…
Read MoreKeeping your data safe by backing up your data. A good hard disk and external housing for backups.
Backing up your precious data to protect your files is essential; the Seagate range of hard drives provide a reliable solution for backing up your data or a large capacity hard drive for installing Linux to. I remember I installed Mandrake Linux once onto a 80 Gigabyte hard disk and…
Read MoreUbuntu 12.10 to include full disk and LVM encryption and a unified disk image.
The Ubuntu 12.10 Linux distribution from Canonical is set to include a feature that the Fedora distribution has included for a long time; full disk encryption and Logical Volume Management encryption. This brings the Canonical distribution in line with Fedora. The ability to encrypt the / folder and not just…
Read MoreSandisk USB 3.0 64 Gigabyte flash drive. A huge capacity for a reasonable price indeed.
The Sandisk USB 3.0 flash disk offers a massive capacity for a reasonable price. With a transfer rate of 190 Megabytes per second, this drive will be able to copy large files to and fro with a minimum of waiting time. On Amazon, this drive retails for US$79.88, this is…
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