Hour 3 Disk Usage
One of the most common problems that system administrators face in the Unix world is disk space. Whether it’s running out of space, or just making sure that no one user is hogging all your resources, exploring how the hard disks are allocated and utilized on your system is a critical skill.
In this hour, you learn:
• How to look at disk usage with df and du
• How to simplify analysis with sort
• How to identify the biggest files and use diskhogs
Physical Disks and Partitions
In the last few years, hard disks have become considerably bigger than most operating systems can comfortably manage. Indeed, most file systems have a ...
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