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 ...

In the beginning days of Unix and later Linux, disks were physically large, but very small in terms of storage capacity. A 300 megabyte disk in the mid-90’s was the size of a shoebox. Today, you can ...

No matter how high-capacity your storage drive is, you always need to see how much space you have used and what files are using it. While there are ways to do this from the GUI in Linux, as always, ...

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 ...

Even though today's enterprise file servers offer more and more disk space, users still find ways to fill all the storage you give them. I'm sure you all have storage hogs, who despite constant ...