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I was looking for a quick and easy way to get directory and file size for a given directory and its sub-directories. I came across a nice post by Luis Diego Fallus and ended up using a commenter’s code to produce output in MB format. gci . | %{$f=$_; gci -r $_.FullName | measure-object -property length … Read more A Simple PowerShell Windows du Implementation
Rob van der Woude has a nice batch script to get disk usage of folders & subfolders in Windows since there isn’t a built-in function. This could be similar to Linux du command. @ECHO OFF :: Use local variables IF "%OS%"=="Windows_NT" SETLOCAL :: Check command line arguments and Windows version ECHO.%1 | FIND "/" … Read more Batch Script to get Disk Usage of Folders Recursively
Here’s a query I found that helps show database IO consumption. SELECT DB_NAME(DB_ID('DATABASENAME')) AS [Database Name] , mf.physical_name , io_stall_read_ms , num_of_reads , CAST(io_stall_read_ms / (1.0 + num_of_reads) AS NUMERIC(10, 1)) AS [avg_read_stall_ms] , io_stall_write_ms , num_of_writes , CAST(io_stall_write_ms / (1.0 + num_of_writes) AS NUMERIC(10, 1)) AS [avg_write_stall_ms] , io_stall_read_ms + io_stall_write_ms AS [io_stalls] , … Read more SQL Database IO Consumption
TAPEDRIVE NOTES (LINUX 2.4) -Rich (01/08/2004) Rewind tape drive: # mt -f /dev/st0 rewind Backup directory /www and /home with tar command (z – compressed): # tar -czf /dev/st0 /www /home Find out what block you are at with mt command: # mt -f /dev/st0 tell Display list of files on tape drive: # tar … Read more Linux Tape Drive Notes
What is it? I created a small tool to help facilitate setting the default user to automatically logon to a system. Requirements Administrator Privileges .NET 2.0 or greater Details There are 4 registry entries of interest here: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftWindows NTCurrentVersionWinlogon] AutoAdminLogon=1 DefaultUserName= DefaultPassword= ForceAutoLogon=1 If you don’t want to download and run my program, you can … Read more Tool: AutoLogon – Configure Windows’ Automatic User Logon