Month: August 2014

Examples: 1. To display the kernel routing table $ netstat -r$ netstat –route 2. To display multicast group membership information $ netstat […]

The mpstat command provides detailed information about the CPU usage and performance statistics of a system. Which is typically used to monitor […]

Examples: 1. To get the NFS mount stats $ mountstat 2. To get only NFS mount stats $ mountstat –nfs 3. To […]

Examples: 1. To mount a file system $ mount /dev/sda /support  2. To specify the file system type $ mount -t nfs […]

Examples: 1. To browse the file $ more file.txt 2. To display the prompt for continue $ more -d file.txt 3. To […]

The mkswap command is used to create a swap area on a device or a file. It is a portion of a […]

It is a command which is used to generate encrypted passwords or password hashes. Which is commonly used for generating password hashes […]

Examples: 1. To make the file system $ mkfs /dev/sda2 2. To produce the verbose output $ mkfs -V /dev/sda2 3. To […]

Examples: 1. To create a file system on a device  $ mke2fs /dev/sda2 2. To specify the block size in bytes $ […]

Examples: 1. To make the directory $ mkdir mike  2. To set file mode while making the directory $ mkdir -m$ mkdir […]