du -sh * | sort -hr
Where:
- du -sh: Shows the sizes of files and directories in a human-readable format
- sort -hr: Sorts the output by size in human format, with the largest items at the top.
Sample:

That’s it, Enjoy!
Create a share from your Virtual Machine Settings, let’s call it shared_vm
sudo apt install open-vm-tools # Make sure you have the latest vmware tools installed
sudo mkdir /shared_vm
sudo /usr/bin/vmhgfs-fuse .host:/ /shared_vm -o subtype=vmhgfs-fuse,allow_other # Mounts the shared_vm share to /shared_vm
To make it permanent, add it to /etc/fstab as follows:
vmhgfs-fuse /mnt/hgfs fuse defaults,allow_other 0 0
Tested on the following environment:
That’s it, Enjoy!
Sources: VMware Official Docs
Prerequisites:
For a simple script that just does the job and gets the sizes of all your buckets:
for bucket in $(gsutil ls); do
echo "Bucket: $bucket"
gsutil du -sh $bucket
done
For a more comprehensive script that picks a specific set of buckets and saves the output to a file:
#!/bin/bash
# File to save the output
output_file="bucket_sizes.txt"
# List of specific buckets
buckets=(
"gs://bucket1/"
"gs://bucket2/"
"gs://bucket3/"
"gs://bucket4"
)
# Clear the output file if it exists, or create a new one
> $output_file
# Loop through the list and get the size of each bucket
for bucket in "${buckets[@]}"; do
echo "Bucket: $bucket" >> $output_file
gsutil du -sh $bucket >> $output_file
done
# Print a message indicating that the process is complete
echo "Bucket sizes have been saved to $output_file"
That’s it, Enjoy!
To be able to craft packets with Scapy, you have to either use sudo or allow setcap for your python environment. I don’t prefer to use sudo when working with my Anaconda environments, so I did the following:
sudo setcap 'cap_net_raw,cap_net_admin,cap_net_bind_service=eip' /home/ubuntu/anaconda3/envs/py311/bin/python3.11
Note: Using in the above example python instead of python3.11 won’t work, since python in that location is just a symbolic link, you have to specify the executable itself directly.
That’s it, now you can run your program without sudo!
Enjoy!
This has been a bit confusing for some time, but after you run your ipmininet network with Python, you want to capture some packets with wireshark/tshark or tcpdump, here is the way you can do it:
Let’s assume we have a host named h1, now at the prompt of mininet:
mininet> h1 screen -S tcpdump
This will take you to a screen terminal where you can run tshark or tcpdump inside it, then Press Ctrl+A then D to detach from out.
After that do whatever command you want, e.g. h1 wants to ping h2
mininet> h1 ping h2
After you are done and you want to collect the results, just run:
mininet> h1 screen -r
you will find the results captured by tcpdump there, which you can copy or screenshot or whatever you want. Finally type exit to destroy the screen session.
Enjoy!
Note: I was using the vagrant installation method of ipmininet.
Thanks Jeril for the tip 😉