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Linux directory structure: /home and /root folders

Posted by Surendra Anne | Mar 9, 2016 | Basics |

This is our 6th post on understanding first level directories in /. Knowing these folders in detail or at least what each is meant for will help you understand Linux/Unix in whole. we already covered below directories, please have a look at those to understand them. In this post we will see two more directories ie /home and /root directory. These directories are meant for similar purpose. The /root is meant for just root user and /home is for all the remaining users. Linux Directory Structure explained: /bin folder Linux Directory Structure explained: /boot folder Linux Directory Structure explained:...

Linux: List/Find used inodes in a filesystem

Posted by Surendra Anne | Mar 6, 2016 | Administration |

Some times you may come across below error. touch: cannot touch `abc.txt’: No space left on device // using touch. This will be bit annoying when you come to know there is a space left in your desk. The culprit in this case is total number of used inodes. If all your inodes are used away you can not create a file/folder though you have plenty of free space left in your machine. Ok, how can I conform how many inodes I used in my machine? We can use df command to get those details. df -i Output: root@linuxnix:/home#...

17 Linux df command examples to understand it

Posted by Surendra Anne | Mar 3, 2016 | Administration |

The Command df “disk file system” is one of the very powerful tools every system admin should know. when mastering this command you should understand a lot of information about your local and remote file system details like mount point, disk utilization, partitions etc. In this post, we will find out some of the very common and useful ways to use “df” to monitor your file system. The df command read it’s output from /proc/mounts file and a kernel function statfs(2). This file /proc/mounts give you where block files are mounted and statfs(2) will help you query kernel to...

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Linux directory structure: /home and /root folders

Linux: List/Find used inodes in a filesystem

17 Linux df command examples to understand it

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