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52 votes
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cat /proc/meminfo what do all those numbers mean

In reading the man page on the free command in Linux. I found that is gets its info from /proc/meminfo. I understand a few of the entries, like MemTotal and MemFree. What do the rest mean. cat /...
0 votes
1 answer
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How to see logs from the back-end of /sys

I am trying to modify something in /sys. My command is failing. e.g. echo 63 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:62:00.0/sriov_numvfs -> bash: echo: write error: Cannot allocate memory e.g. echo three &...
10 votes
4 answers
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What is the meaning of those numbers in the second column after typing "ls -l"? [duplicate]

drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jun 29 16:44 db drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jun 29 16:44 djproject -rwxr-xr-x. 1 root root 38 Jun 29 16:44 index.html drwxr-xr-x. 2 root root 4096 Jun 29 16:44 jobs -...
37 votes
3 answers
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In Linux what happens if 1000 files in a directory are moved to another location while another 300 files were added to the source directory?

In Linux what happens if 1000 files in a directory are moved to another location and another 300 files were added to the source directory while original 1000 files were being moved. Will the ...
2 votes
1 answer
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File system concepts (df command)

I'm finding it difficult to understand some stuffs about the df command. Suppose I type df and I have the following output Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Avail Capacity Mounted on /...