Netmask table

Bitmask (Bits) Dotted Decimal Hexadecimal Binary
/0 0.0.0.0 0x00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/1 128.0.0.0 0x80000000 10000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/2 192.0.0.0 0xc0000000 11000000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/3 224.0.0.0 0xe0000000 11100000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/4 240.0.0.0 0xf0000000 11110000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/5 248.0.0.0 0xf8000000 11111000 00000000 00000000 00000000
/6 252.0.0.0 0xfc000000 11111100 00000000 00000000 00000000
/7 254.0.0.0 0xfe000000 11111110 00000000 00000000 00000000
/8 255.0.0.0 0xff000000 11111111 00000000 00000000 00000000
/9 255.128.0.0 0xff800000 11111111 10000000 00000000 00000000
/10 255.192.0.0 0xffc00000 11111111 11000000 00000000 00000000
/11 255.224.0.0 0xffe00000 11111111 11100000 00000000 00000000
/12 255.240.0.0 0xfff00000 11111111 11110000 00000000 00000000
/13 255.248.0.0 0xfff80000 11111111 11111000 00000000 00000000
/14 255.252.0.0 0xfffc0000 11111111 11111100 00000000 00000000
/15 255.254.0.0 0xfffe0000 11111111 11111110 00000000 00000000
/16 255.255.0.0 0xffff0000 11111111 11111111 00000000 00000000
/17 255.255.128.0 0xffff8000 11111111 11111111 10000000 00000000
/18 255.255.192.0 0xffffc000 11111111 11111111 11000000 00000000
/19 255.255.224.0 0xffffe000 11111111 11111111 11100000 00000000
/20 255.255.240.0 0xfffff000 11111111 11111111 11110000 00000000
/21 255.255.248.0 0xfffff800 11111111 11111111 11111000 00000000
/22 255.255.252.0 0xfffffc00 11111111 11111111 11111100 00000000
/23 255.255.254.0 0xfffffe00 11111111 11111111 11111110 00000000
/24 255.255.255.0 0xffffff00 11111111 11111111 11111111 00000000
/25 255.255.255.128 0xffffff80 11111111 11111111 11111111 10000000
/26 255.255.255.192 0xffffffc0 11111111 11111111 11111111 11000000
/27 255.255.255.224 0xffffffe0 11111111 11111111 11111111 11100000
/28 255.255.255.240 0xfffffff0 11111111 11111111 11111111 11110000
/29 255.255.255.248 0xfffffff8 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111000
/30 255.255.255.252 0xfffffffc 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111100
/31 255.255.255.254 0xfffffffe 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111110
/32 255.255.255.255 0xffffffff 11111111 11111111 11111111 11111111

Reduce VirtualBox vdi image

if your vdi is larger than the space you’re using, you can reduce its size by installing “zerofree” inside your vm, and booting it in “recovery”, “failsafe” or “single user” mode, remount your “/” filesystem readonly, and supposing “/” is in /dev/sda1

# zerofree /dev/sda1

Shutdown your vm and in the VirtualBox host

# VBoxManage modifyhd linuxy.vdi compact

Clear linux cached memory

if you want to clear the linux cached memory run “echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches”

root@pc:~# free
 total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3951136 2979376 971760 0 29704 2488576
-/+ buffers/cache: 461096 3490040
Swap: 3050492 2268 3048224
root@pc:~#  echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
root@pc:~# free
 total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3951136 511264 3439872 0 1828 99752
-/+ buffers/cache: 409684 3541452
Swap: 3050492 2268 3048224

it clears it all 🙂