Month: September 2014

The renice command is used to change the priority of a running process. Which is typically used to adjust the CPU priority […]

The reboot command is used to reboot the system. Used to perform a clean restart of the server after making changes or […]

The quotaon command is used to enable file system quotas on specified file systems. Which is typically used to limit the amount […]

Examples: 1. To turnoff the quota off on a file system $ quotaoff /  2. To turnoff the quota off on all […]

The pvmove command is used to move allocated physical extents from one physical volume (PV) to another. Used to migrate data between […]

Examples: 1. To create a physical volume out of partition or drive $ pvcreate /dev/sda  2. To forcefully create the physical volume […]

The pstree command displays the running processes on a system in a tree format. Which also shows the hierarchical relationship between processes, […]

The pmap command displays memory map of a process. Which provides information about how the virtual memory of a process is allocated […]

The pkill command allows you to send signals to processes based on their names or other attributes. Which is commonly used to […]