Just a quick look at df and du. This comes up a lot when we have filesystems that are filling up and need to find out which directories or logs are using the space. How to find the size of mounted filesystems From the terminal enter the df command. [email protected]:~$ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 492M 12K 492M 1% /dev tmpfs 100M 780K 99M 1% /run /dev/xvda1 15G 3.

Have you ever wanted to set up your own video streaming service on your home or work network? This simple guide will help you set up a media server using Ubuntu 14.04 and Plex. The setup for Plex on Ubuntu is incredibly easy and is a great way to back up your existing video, music and picture library in a way that will allow you to share the content with anyone on or off your network.

There are lots of reasons to use Linux for your networking needs both at home and at work not the least of which is the unbeatable price (free). Linux has a well deserved reputation for security and high availability that is unrivaled among modern operating systems. Setting up a dhcp and dns server with Linux is not as hard as you might think especially when using a package called “dnsmasq”. Dnsmasq is a lightweight package that is available from the default Ubuntu repositories.