QDiskInfo, the free open-source S.M.A.R.T. utility, released new 0.4 version in last week! For those who don’t know about QDiskInfo, it’s a frontend for smartctl to control and monitor SMART (Self-Monitoring, Analysis, and Reporting Technology) Disks, such as SATA and NVMe SSD. As you see in the screenshot above, it offers the popular Windows app […]
When going to download or install something that takes much disk space, it’s better to first check if there’s enough free space left in your system. This is super easy to do the job in Ubuntu & other Linux. And, I’m going to show you how in both graphical and command line ways. Though the […]
Learn how to identify which SAN disks are mapped to which block devices, LV, VG, and filesystem on Linux.
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I have an external disk mounted in my Ubuntu 22.04 with read and write permission. It however ran into issue recently. When I tried to boot Virtual Machine from that disk, it return error “NS_ERROR_FAILURE (0X80004005)“. And, when to save VM settings it output “Runtime error opening ‘/path/to/vm-machine.vbox-tmp’ for overwriting: -113 (Write protect error.).” […]
This simple tutorial shows how to easily check your SSD health in Ubuntu and/or Linux Mint desktop. I’ve been running Ubuntu Linux on my old laptop for about 7 years. Everything works well, but it recently refuses to boot sometimes when pressing on the physical power button. Not sure what’s the problem, but I guess […]
The UUID refers to a Universally Unique Identifier that consists of 128-bit numbers that have the probability of having duplicates close enough to zero but not zero in the local system. It was originally used in the Networking Computing System and then, later standardized by the Open Software Foundation. In this article, we will see […]
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In most cases, disk space can be expanded by adding a new LUN to the system. In this quick tutorial, learn how to resize existing LUN or Disk on Linux.
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This tutorial shows how to install and use GDU Disk Analyzer, a Linux command-line tool that helps you to get a better overview of your disk storage usage.
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In this article, we will discuss another popular command for the Linux/Unix platform. du stands for “Disk Usage”. It is a standard command used to estimate space usage (meaning, in the terminal we can find the exact size each directory and file takes up). There are multiple ways we can generate various types of output […]
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In this article, we will discuss another popular command for the Linux/Unix platform. It is called du, which stands for “Disk Usage”. du is a standard command used to estimate space usage (meaning, in the terminal we can find the exact size each directory and file takes up). There are multiple ways we can generate […]
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For Linux users and administrators in a server-like environment, knowing the exact size of a directory tree through the system terminal is important. It will help you compare file directory properties and determine their storage allocation when you want to copy or move these directories to a different location. The command du is an abbreviation for disk […]
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On the internet, you will find plenty of tools for checking disk space utilization in Linux. However, Linux has a strong built-in utility called df?. The df command stands for “disk filesystem“; it’s used to get a full summary of available and us…
dust gives an instant overview of which directories are using disk space. Its name derives from the du command and that dust is written in Rust. dust is intended to be more intuitive than du. Like du, it’s published under an open-source license.
The po…