Useful console linux commands
Introduction
Below are some linux commands you might find useful.
They can be run from any terminal emulator (xterm, konsole, etc.) or from a virtual console by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F{1..12}
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The uptime
console command shows the time (days) the computer has been up without a reboot.
admin@ip-172-31-27-178:~/quickstart$ uptime
15:11:49 up 42 days, 19:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
For disk usage by filesystem, use the df
console command.
admin@ip-172-31-27-178:~/quickstart$ df -hT
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev devtmpfs 475M 0 475M 0% /dev
tmpfs tmpfs 98M 544K 97M 1% /run
/dev/xvda1 ext4 7.7G 1.9G 5.4G 27% /
tmpfs tmpfs 486M 0 486M 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs tmpfs 5.0M 0 5.0M 0% /run/lock
/dev/xvda15 vfat 124M 12M 113M 10% /boot/efi
tmpfs tmpfs 98M 0 98M 0% /run/user/1000
If you want to see the memory usage in the Linux console: