In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

Jack Wallen, writing for TechRepublic Premium, presents some of the more useful disk management command line tools found on just about every Linux distribution. Once you have even a basic ...

When I'm using Linux, I know that all the information I need is only a few commands away. If you want to know it, Linux can give it to you -- from security, network, disk space, users, and everything ...

You can use the following command line tools to retrieve the make and model of your hard drives without the need to open up your system. Note: You may need to install ...

The Linux operating system is well known for its powerful command line functionality. As a system administrator, I operate a few hundred Linux servers and most of them don’t even utilize a graphical ...

Disk quotas are a mechanism for limiting the amount of disk space and the number of files (inodes) that a user or a group of users can consume. These limits prevent individual users or services from ...

Want to do a quick performance check on your Linux system? You might want to take a look at the dstat command. Linux provides a number of commands that provide information about disk and system ...