Subj : Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
To   : Spaceman Spiff
From : Sniper
Date : Mon Jan 10 2005 11:52 am

-=> Spaceman Spiff Scribbled to Angus Mcleod <=-

 SS>   Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
 SS>   By: Angus Mcleod to Spaceman Spiff on Thu Jan 06 2005 09:01 am

 >   Re: LINUX the Cross Roads
 >   By: Spaceman Spiff to All on Wed Jan 05 2005 20:08:00
 >
 >  > Well, it finally happened.
 >
 > Welcome!
 >
 >  > I wrote over the old WIndows2000Pro installation on the P2. The drive tha
 >  > in the machine was a real small one, 1.6 GIG, I couldn't load all the ext
 >  > server stuff, but I figured I would get a taste of LINUX.
 >
 > 1.6 gig isn't big, but you should be able to get a fairly comprehensive
 > Linux install on it.  I usually count on 1 gig for the OS and most of the
 > common server apps and general OS utilities.  If you want the whole of
 > GNOME *and* KDE, probably more than 1 gig, though.
 >
 SS> [mark@localhost mark]$ hdparm -i /dev/hda

You may want to try this type "df" which should give you something like:

Filesystem           1k-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             16476952   1559532  14080436  10% /
/dev/hdb1             39076880  21895628  17181252  57% /files
/dev/hdd1             57691772  48906900   5854216  90% /movies2
/dev/cdrom              354594    354594         0 100% /cdrom

which shows you the actual drive names </dev/hda1> how big the drive
is, how much is used and available, with a percentage, and where its
mounted at, "/" or /dev/hdb1 at /files.  This won't show you your swap
drive <if you have one, but the command "free" will show you this:

--(sniper:$ free
             total       used       free     shared    buffers
cached
Mem:        125900     121364       4536          0      11928
42792
-/+ buffers/cache:      66644      59256
Swap:       128516     128516          0

telling me that I have 128 megs of swap, and that its all used...  Also
that I have 125 <there abouts> megs of memory, with 121 megs used and 4
megs free.  And then you can check your uptime on your computer, using
the command "uptime", which shows:

--(sniper:$ uptime
 11:45:41 up 47 days,  8:52,  2 users,  load average: 1.00, 1.00, 1.00

which tells me its 11:45am, the computers been up for 47 days and 8
hours and 52 minutes.  That 2 users have recently used the computer, and
the load average of the computer.  Again, a man uptime gives you more
information.

There's one other command you can use, and its "du", which is like doing
a dir /s that lists all the directories and sub directories... be
carefull of this.  If your in the root directory, it'll take some time
scrolling all the data through.  :)  Again, you can use the | more
command with this... Oh, and by hitting enter with this command, it will
move up one line at a time, or by hitting the space bar, it will move up
one page at a time.  

Anyway, hope those commands get you going.  :)

Good luck on the new OS.  Linux takes alot of time getting use to.  I've
been running it for quite some time now, almost 10 years altogether.  :)

Love it!



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