When I first left the Big Blue OS behind for the world of Linux, I wallowed in guesses over how my disk space was filling up. One thing that was hard to replace from my Windows XP days was the ...

Most similar to top is iotop. This program shows you the total and current disk read and write numbers for the file system and also shows you who is eating up the most disk I/O. This screen looks busy ...

I'd like to run linux red hat on a 486 to use as dns server and/or router, or even mail server maybe. How much disk space does a typical installation take? There's 3 discs, but I suppose it works like ...

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 ...

In this Linux Tip, learn to use the iotop command, which helps to monitor I/O usage for your disks. Hi, this is Sandra Henry-Stocker, author of the “Unix as a Second Language” blog on NetworkWorld. In ...