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Commands tagged disk

Terminal - Commands tagged disk - 6 results

du -sch *

2011-12-06 18:38:20

User: anarcat

Functions: du

Tags: space du disk

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List the size (in human readable form) of all sub folders from the current location

All folders, human-readable, no subfolder, with a total. Even shorter.

Comments (0) | Add to favourites | Report as malicious | Submit alternative | Report as a duplicate

smartctl --attributes /dev/sda

2011-10-13 20:21:03

User: ShadowCat8

Tags: hard drive disk S.M.A.R.T.

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Read all the S.M.A.R.T. data from a hard disk drive

This is to pull all the saved S.M.A.R.T. (Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology) information from a hard drive.

This can give you an idea of the nature and extent of an issue on a failing hard drive.

dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=64k count=16k conv=fdatasync

2011-08-14 16:37:06

User: marcel

Functions: dd

Tags: disk io vps

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Test disk I/O

Especially useful to gauge the performance of a VPS.

vzlist -a -H -o hostname,diskspace,diskspace.s,veid | awk '{ printf( "%2.f%\t%s\t%s\n"), $2*100/$3, $4, $1}' | sort -r

2011-02-08 02:59:29

User: xkill

Functions: awk sort

Tags: disk size disk usage disk openvz vzlist quota disk quota

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Get disk quota usage openvz using vzlist

OpenVZ: Get disk quota usage for your VEID

cat /dev/sda | pv -r > /dev/null

2011-01-23 22:58:56

User: kerim

Functions: cat

Tags: cat hard disk read harddisk pv speed hdparm hard drive disk

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Detect your computer's harddisk read speed without disk cache speed

Change your drive letter as you wish.

Using pv command for speed detect.First of all you must install pv command for usage.

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du -hs /path/to/target

2010-06-12 00:37:59

User: dbbolton

Functions: du

Tags: space du usage disk hard drive

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See how much space is used by a file or directory

A really useful pair of du options.