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Use tcpdump to monitor all DNS queries and responses

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Get MD5 checksum from a pipe stream and do not alter it

list block devices
Shows all block devices in a tree with descruptions of what they are.

Find total Terabytes written to a SSD
You must have smartmontools installed for this to work. This also assumes you 512 byte sector sizes, this is pretty standard.

See size of partitions as human readable
See size of partitions as human readable and get extra informations about hdd and partitions

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Compute the average number of KB per file for each dir
Use this to find identify if dirs mostly contain large or small files.

a function to find the fastest DNS server
http://public-dns.info gives a list of online dns servers. you need to change the country in url (br in this url) with your country code. this command need some time to ping all IP in list.


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