Useful commands for getting information about your computers memory status and hard drives.

This command used with grep will return information about your computers memory. jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total MemTotal: 12219468 kB SwapTotal: 70311928 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0jason@jason-desktop:~/Documents$ cat /proc/meminfo | grep Total MemTotal: 12219468 kB SwapTotal: 70311928 kB VmallocTotal: 34359738367 kB CmaTotal: 0 kB HugePages_Total: 0 If you want to … Read more

Listing the free space on your Linux system. And other useful Linux shell commands.

Listing the free space on your Linux system. Using the df command to list this on the command-line. The df command for Linux will display a listing of your partitions and how much space is available. The -H parameter shows the outputs in human readable formats. ubuntu@ubuntu:~/Documents$ df -Hla Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted … Read more