Posts Tagged ‘command promp’

Installing iftop – Centos 5.2

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iftop isn’t available to be installed with yum. So we need to install it using rpm. First thing we do is visit the official iftop website and download the rpm for redhat. http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pdw/iftop/ If you scroll down, you’ll find the latest version. At the time of writing this I used the following command from my [...]

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Read more | Comments (2) | Apr 10, 2009

Disk Space Usage – Linux

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What’s taking up all the space? A command prompt try some of the examples I list below: du –help This shows all the parameters you can supply the “du” command with. Typical combinations I use are as follows: du -h #human readable characters du -c #grand total displayed at end du * -s #summarise all [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 8, 2009