Linux

From DWIKI

Linux is a free Unix-type operating system originally created by Linus Torvalds with the assistance of developers around the world. Developed under the GNU General Public License , the source code for Linux is freely available to everyone.

Links


Rescue CDs


Checking resources

http://www.slashroot.in/linux-system-io-monitoring

show what is doing most disk accesses

iotop 
glances

IO statistics

iostat
vmstat
dstat

CPU usage etc

top
atop
htop
vtop
fio
pidstat

Administration

FAQ

timestamp to human readable

date -d @1522142497

List hardware

  • lshw
  • dmidecode
  • lsusb
  • hwinfo
  • lspci


rescan partition table

partprobe


Force reboot

I found sometimes 'reboot' and 'shutdown' don't work in virtual machines, in that case try:

#sync
echo s > /proc/sysrq-trigger
#optionally umount
echo u > /proc/sysrq-trigger
#reboot
echo b > /proc/sysrq-trigger

Mignight commander/dialog strange characters

Quick fix:

export LANG=en_US.ISO-8859-1

This probleem seems to be related to screen/su -