Note that the command output displays user, system and idle time along with other stats like disk read and write activity, interrupts and context switches. The following command displays the top ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...