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The One Page Linux Manual Cheat Sheet (DRAFT) by

A summary of useful Linux commands

This is a draft cheat sheet. It is a work in progress and is not finished yet.

Startup and Shutdown

shutdown -h now
Shutdown the system now and do not reboot
halt
Stop all processes - same as above
shutdown -r 5
Shutdown the system in 5 minutes and reboot
shutdown -r now
Shutdown the system now and reboot
reboot
Stop all processes and then reboot - same as above
 

File System

mount
Show all currently mounted devices
mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom
Mount the device cdrom and call it cdrom under the /mnt directory
mount -t msdos /dev/hdd /mnt/d­drive
Mount hard disk “d” as a msdos file system and call it ddrive under the /mnt directory
mount -t vfat /dev/hda1 /mnt/c­drive
Mount hard disk “a” as a VFAT file system and call it cdrive under the /mnt directory
mount -a
Mount all devices listed in /etc/fstab
umount /mnt/cdrom
Unmount the cdrom
du -hs /files
Display the disk usage of the /files directory and all sub-di­rec­tories
du -hs /files/*
Display the disk usage of all the sub-di­rec­tories in /files
df -h
Display the file system disk usage in human readable format (i.e. 54M, 12G)