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Check Disk Usage Using Duf Command-line Utility on Linux
This article covers how To View Disk Usage With Duf On Linux And Unix.
Duf is a command line utility to find disk usage in Linux and Unix-like systems.
It displays the disk usage details in a nice tabular-column and user-friendly layout.
You can even get the disk usage output in JSON format as well.
Features of duf Utility:
1. Easy to use
2. Colorful display
3. Adjust height and width as per your terminal resize movement
4. Sorting data as per our need
5. Filters and groups
6. JSON outputs and more
On DEB-based systems such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, download the .deb binary installation file from the releases page and install it using your system's package manager.
$ sudo apt install gdebi$ sudo gdebi duf_0.3.1_linux_amd64.debOn RPM-based systems such as RHEL, CentOS, Fedora, download the .rpm binary file and install it using command:
$ sudo rpm -Uvh duf_0.3.1_linux_amd64.rpm
To View Disk Usage With Duf On Linux And Unix:
All you have to do is just run the duf command without any options like below:
$ duf
Install Moodle on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 - Step by Step Process ?
This article covers how to download, configure, and install Moodle powered by the LAMP stack on RHEL 8.
Moodle is the world’s most popular learning management system for building robust online learning sites.
How to open HTTP and HTTPS for Moodle Learning Platform in CentOS 8 ?
To open HTTP and HTTPS services in the firewall to allow traffic to the NGINX web server, run the commands below:
# firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=http # firewall-cmd --permanent --zone=public --add-service=https# firewall-cmd --reload
Find UUID in Linux Mint 20 - How to do it ?
This article covers the different methods to find out the UUID in a Linux Mint 20 system.
UUID is the "universally unique identifier" that is assigned to devices on a Linux system for the purpose of identification.
For example if your hard disk has 3 partitions then each partition is a device and has a uuid.
Similarly cd/dvd, usb drives etc all are assigned a uuid.
Different methods To identify Disk Partition/FileSystem UUID in Linux:
1. blkid Command: locate/print block device attributes.
2. lsblk Command: lsblk lists information about all available or the specified block devices.
3. hwinfo Command: hwinfo stands for hardware information tool and great utility that used to probe for the hardware present in the system.
4. udevadm Command: udev management tool.
5. tune2fs Command: adjust tunable filesystem parameters on ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystems.
6. dumpe2fs Command: dump ext2/ext3/ext4 filesystem information.
7. Using by-uuid Path: The directory contains UUID and real block device files, UUIDs were symlink with real block device files.
Install Microsoft Edge Browser on Ubuntu 20.04 - Step by Step Process ?
This article covers how to install Microsoft Edge on Ubuntu OS.
With Microsoft Edge PPA, you can be aware of a newer version whenever it is released.
While with the .deb package, you will have to download the latest .deb package and then install it again to update the current version.
To Install Microsoft Edge Browser in Ubuntu:
1. Download the package:
$ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpgsudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'sudo rm microsoft.gpg2. Install Microsoft Edge Browser:
$ sudo apt update$ sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
Install Cinnamon Desktop on Ubuntu 20.04 LTS - Step by Step Process ?
This article covers steps to install Cinnamon desktop on your Ubuntu 20.04 system.
Want to try out the Cinnamon Desktop Environment?
Without installing Linux Mint, you can get the desktop packages in Ubuntu via a few commands.
Cinnamon is available in Ubuntu main repositories, though the package version is however a little old.
Ensure to enable universe repository and then use this command to install Cinnamon on Ubuntu 20.04:
$ sudo apt install cinnamon
Install Microsoft Edge Browser on Linux Mint 20 - Step by Step Process ?
This article covers methods of installing and uninstalling the Microsoft Edge browser on a Linux Mint 20 system.
Also, if you want to get rid of it, you can conveniently uninstall it.
Edge for Linux currently supports Ubuntu, Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE distributions.
Developers may install Edge from the Microsoft Edge Insider site or Microsoft's Linux Software Repository.
To Install Edge on Debian, Ubuntu, and Mint:
$ curl https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc | gpg --dearmor > microsoft.gpg$ sudo install -o root -g root -m 644 microsoft.gpg /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/$ sudo sh -c 'echo "deb [arch=amd64] https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/edge stable main" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/microsoft-edge-dev.list'$ sudo rm microsoft.gpg$ sudo apt update$ sudo apt install microsoft-edge-dev
Once successfully installed on your Linux Mint system, launch the browser from your favorite app launcher, or run microsoft-edge-dev from a command prompt.
