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Day 6: Storage, Backups, and Bash

Chapter 16: Manage Disks, Filesystems, Memory, and Swap in Linux

In this chapter, you'll inspect disks, check filesystem usage, find large files, monitor memory and swap, understand inodes, and mount a practice filesystem.

Welcome to Day 6.

In Chapter 15, you connected to web01 from your host machine, secured its SSH configuration, and synchronised files between the two machines.

In this first chapter, you will learn how to see what is on your disks, check how much space is available, and find out what is using your system’s memory.

What You Will Learn

Updated on Sep 2, 2026