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GCP Bucket Size

March 26, 2020

Here are the commands to find out the bucket size in GCP.

gsutil du -s gs://bucket-name/

MTU means maximum transmission unit. The default value is 1500 for Ethernet, which is also the standard for the Internet. If your application or network requires a different MTU size, you can set the MTU size by running the following commands.

# Edit ifcfg-eth0
vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
 
#Add MTU, settings:
MTU="1460"
 
# Save and close the file. Restart networking:
service network restart

Get Directory Size

September 7, 2019

Here’s how to get the size of a directory.

du -sh /var/www

Output:

2.1GB    /var/www

Size of the directories and files one level down.

du -sh /var/www/*

Sort with biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh

Top 5 biggest files from top to bottom.

du -sh /var/www/* | sort -rh | head -5

MacOS Custom Launchpad

February 28, 2019

Are the icons too big in MacOS Launchpad? You can customize them. Here are the commands.

# change the launchpad icon size by changing the columns and rows
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-columns -int 10
defaults write com.apple.dock springboard-rows -int 10
killall Dock
# reset the launchpd
defaults write com.apple.dock ResetLaunchPad -bool TRUE
killall Dock
# reset to defaults
defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-columns 
defaults delete com.apple.dock springboard-rows
killall Dock