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Watching live I/O: iotop

Yet another awesome top clone for Linux, this time to make monitoring disk I/O simple: iostat. This post over at MDLog has a great introduction and explanation. For me it was available with apt-get, as iostat. Then you just run … Continue reading

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Tracking down used disk space: Follow largest directories

When a server is getting low on disk space, you need to find out what is taking up that space, and fast. I previously would run this command in /: 1sudo du -ch –max-depth=1 . This would show all the … Continue reading

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