Smartmontools (S.M.A.R.T. Monitoring Tools) is a set of utility programs (smartctl and smartd) to control and monitor computer storage systems using the Self-Monitoring, Analysis and Reporting Technology (S.M.A.R.T.) system built into most modern (P)ATA, Serial ATA, SCSI/SAS and NVMe hard drives. Smartmontools displays early warning signs of hard drive problems detected by S.M.A.R.T., often giving … Read more
Duc is a collection of tools for indexing, inspecting and visualizing disk usage. Duc maintains a database of accumulated sizes of directories of the file system, and allows you to query this database with some tools, or create fancy graphs showing you where your bytes are. Duc comes with a command line tool called duc, … Read more
duf is one of the fancy Linux disk monitoring utilities written in Golang. It is released under MIT license and It supports Linux, macOS, BSD, and even Windows too. Features of duf Gives you an overview of all the devices mounted which is easy to understand Ability to specify a directory/file name and check free space for … Read more
gdu (Go Disk Usage) is very similar to ncdu, a popular console disk usage analyzer, with one major difference: speed. gdu makes use of parallel processing, being especially created for solid state drives (SSD). It also works with hard disk drives (HDD), but its performance gain compared to other tools is not so great in … Read more
The stat command is used in Linux/Unix system to display detailed information about files and file systems. It is most commonly used to get file timestamps. The Linux ls command usually gives you basic details about a file whereas stat command prints additional information about the file pulled from the inode. This article explains how … Read more
Systemd a standard process for managing start-up services in Linux operating systems. It is used for controlling which programs run when the Linux system boots up. It is a system manager and has become the new standard for Linux operating systems. Systemd allows you to create a custom systemd service to run and manage any … Read more
exa is a modern replacement for the command-line program ls that ships with Unix and Linux operating systems, with more features and better defaults. It uses colours to distinguish file types and metadata. It knows about symlinks, extended attributes, and Git. And it’s small, fast, and just one single binary. By deliberately making some decisions … Read more
As a system administrator, you are probably monitoring the disk space on your system all the time. When browsing directories on your server, you might have come across directories with a lot of files in them. Sometimes, you may want to know how many files are sitting in a given directory, or in many different directories. In … Read more
The w is a command-line utility shows the information about currently logged in users. It also displays the system information that how long the system has been running, current time and the system load average. In this article, we will talk about the w command. How to Use the w Command The syntax for the … Read more
Bashtop is a free and open source Terminal based resource monitor for Linux, macOS and BSD systems. This tool can display usage and stats for processor, memory, disks, network and processes. Bashtop is written in Bash with a TUI interface for monitoring resource usage on your Linux, macOS or FreeBSD system. Features of Bashtop System … Read more