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How do I display the available disk space of a mount in specific format?
I would like to display the available disk space of a mount in xx% format,
For example:
sh-3.1$ df -h /opt/Application/Disk1/
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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Can I delete files from C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download?
I need to free space on Windows XP SP3.
Q1) What system folders can be safely delete in case I don't need to have restore points etc?
Q2) Can I delete content from ...
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chkdsk unable to free space on corrupted RAID 0 partition
I have a two 1TB SATA drives configured in RAID 0. The partition is showing as 100% full despite only containing several hundred gigabytes of data. When Windows boots, chkdsk attempts to ...
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I have nearly 500 GB drive space but can't install Ubuntu
I was trying install Ubuntu 11.04 over and over again via USB driver but it often failed that it says my drive space isn't enough (4.4GB). However, my Windows partition has about 200 GB free space. I ...
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I want to move winsxs folder to another drive. Possible? [closed]
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Can winsxs be moved and if so how?
My SSD is running out of space. The winsxs folder is by far the biggest holder of space. So I wanted to move the folder to another ...
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preventing Windows from filling up system disk [closed]
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My windows directory is huge
I spare 30G for C:\ for Windows 7. As time goes by Windows fill it up.
I do not know what can be removed. How can this be solved?
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How can determine how my partition is full even when it appears it is not?
I have run "df -kh" on my FreeBSD box and I see that /var is near 100% full. It was over but I have trimmed what I can but there is less then 500MB total on the partition according to running "du -ksh ...
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Why does my Windows folder use 75 GB? [closed]
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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
My dad has asked me to have a look at his ...
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Where are 25 GB of missing disk space on my SSD? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
I highlighted all files and folders in my C drive (with "show hidden files or folders" switched on) in Windows 7 ...
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Disconnected USB drive during NTFS file transfer, will space be reclaimed?
I have a NTFS external drive that I was transfering a large file to. The transfer appeared to be hanging, so I pulled the USB connection. Is the file system smart enough to reclaim the disk space for ...
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Weird GZip / Disk space issue
I'm working on a server which is using PCI Compliant partitioning rules, which means that each of the following directories has its own partition: /, /var, /boot, /usr, /tmp and /home. The server is ...
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Finder too optimistic about free space?
Below is a storage overview from "About this Mac" on OS X Lion, running on a Macbook Air.
It says: backups 71.07 GB. No data is in the "Other" area, which seems a bit weird, because I have at least ...
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How do install of “Windows 7 Upgrade” on VirtualBox (for use on OS X) w/ minimal disk use? [closed]
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Clean Install Using Windows 7 RTM Upgrade
I have a license for Windows 7 upgrade, and want to use it via VirtualBox on OS X. Because the Upgrade license doesn't work on ...
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Graphical Monitor for HDD usage [closed]
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How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
I'm on Windows XP and find myself running fairly low on space. Unfortunately upgrading my drive is not an option, ...
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total disk space among directories
I have this structure in my linux filesystem:
/folder
...subfolder1
......temp/
...subfolder2
......temp/
...subfolder3
......temp/
...subfolder4
......temp/
...subfolder5
......temp/
And I want to ...
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Windows 7 volume missing
after cleaning C:\Windows directory from $path\SoftwareDistribution I won 2GB.
It's okay, and I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010. Everything went ok and C:\Windows size increased to 17GB. ...
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Over 20GB of disk space is gone?
System drive, OS is Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate.
Windows Explorer shows 100GB of used space.
TreeSizeFree shows 75GB of used space.
Total Commander and FAR confirm TreeSizeFree's measurements ...
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History Timeline of free disk space on a windows system
What is a good and simple tool to monitor and graph free disk space over time on a windows machine?
The usual disk visualization tools are not a good fit, as the result should be an timeline of the ...
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Graph free disk space on windows systems
What is a good and simple tool to monitor and graph free disk space over time on
a windows machine?
The usual disk visualization tools are not a good fit, as the result should be an timeline of the ...
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Size Of Paging File
Why is paging size necessary and why does it balloon now and then.
I am using Core 2 Quad. With Windows 7 Professional x32 and 4 GB RAM, still the paging file size is huge near 2.96 GB in C drive.
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Offline folders says there is not enough free space on the drive - but there is (Windows 7)
I have been using Windows Offline Folders for some years now, without too much hair torn out.
However, after reinstalling Windows and setting up my tried-out configuration, synchronization stops ...
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Windows 7: application to check folder size in computer [closed]
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Reclaiming disk space on Windows
Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
I would like check my computer's C: drive for files that consume an lot ...
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My C drive is 20GB large and almost full, how do I regain space?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my PC. The C drive has a capacity of 20 GB and I have only a few applications installed. Still, the drive shows as being almost full up to its capacity and keeps ...
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Calculate minimum ext3 partition size for certain amount of data
These following ext3 partitions contain identical data. As we can see, the larger the partition size, the more space is required for the same files:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available ...
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Windows 7 - How to make hidden files count when it comes to hard disk space?
I have noticed that hidden files do not count when I hover the mouse to see information on directory size, however hidden files get counted when I click on folder's "Properties".
How do I make hidden ...
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list of folders using most disk space in Windows 7 [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Visualize the file system usage on Windows
Is there a way to show the folders using the most disk space in windows 7, from most disk space to least disk space? Or get a ...
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ubuntu working on thin client cannot provide accurate disk space reports
We are using thin client systems in our work environment. There is a central ubuntu server and by using thin clients, we are connecting to our homes. The problem is when I try to install an ...
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How does a HP Data Vault (using Windows Home Server) share a logical drive across multiple physical drives?
I've recently procured a HP Data Vault, and have been looking at the partitions in Disk Management.
D: (a logical drive) links to two physical hard drives (each with a NTFS partition).
Total Disk ...
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Linux: Compressing files despite low disk space
I use Linux. I coded a screenshot program some time ago and now I have 9 GIG of screenshots, 60000 JPEGs, most of them look pretty similar, and I have 300 MB of disk space remaining.
What are some ...
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Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB?
I used Defraggler to defragment free space on my 100 GB C:\ drive which was 85 GB full. After defragmentation, the drive showed only 75 GB full. How did 10 GB of free space ...
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find command unpredictable behaviour?
I am working on a remote machine,the disk space on the HP-UNIX machine was 96% so I was going to reduce the disk space by zipping some "*.extract.sys" files.
$find . "*extract.sys" -exec ls -lrt {} ...
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135Gb disk has 2Gb free, but I can only find 65Gb of files on it. Wazzup? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
My daughters Windows Vista laptop has a 160Gb hard drive with the main C: partition set to 135Gb.
Windows is ...
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How can I free up some spaces in my drive C?
Each time I try to save a file, I get a message from my computer (with Windows 7) that asks me to free up some space in my Drive C for being able to save my intended file.
But the more I search for ...
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Find out what's sapping hard drive space?
Possible Duplicate:
Visualize the file system usage on Windows
I have a machine running Windows Server 2003 R2 and over the last week, the available hard drive space has been dropping ...
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Is there a way to see which files are taking up the most disk space in Windows 7? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Visualize the file system usage on Windows
I am running out of disk space on my Windows 7 machine and I would like an easy way to list files by size. Is there a utility ...
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Problem in linux filesystem; difference in calculating size using df & du
When I run df it shows the root device is full.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 9.9G 9.4G 0 100% /
I looked at the inode usage and there is pretty ...
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How to analyse disk usage in command line linux?
du and df are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
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Free program to delete old unused files in Windows [closed]
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Windows registry and system cleaner applications ?
My drive c is becoming very very low on disc space, and I need to reguarly delete and cleanup files both in the ...
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Weird Undeletable Files After Backup With SyncBack SE To USB External WD Hard Drive
It was just a simple file-by-file backup of the whole system partition about half year ago. Today i was clearing space and found two hidden files:
I could not delete them and do anything at all. ...
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What happens when an email does not fit in your inbox?
Suppose someone tries to send me an email with a multi-megabyte attachment, and there is not enough space in my Inbox folder on my mailserver to store the email. What will happen? In particular, will ...
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Discrepency between df and du? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Difference between df -k and du -sh
The problem: I receive messages that I cannot write to disk.
The symptoms:
df -h
Size 17G
Used 17G
Avail 0 Use% 100%
Mounted ...
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What is temporarily using my sbs 2003 disk space
We have a drive space alert that is happening twice every day at about 6:40am and 12:40pm. I don't want to alter the alert but I do want to find where the drive space is going. I have carefully ...
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Can I delete the files in C:\Windows\Installer folder? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer?
The folder "C:\Windows\Installer" on my Windows XP contains 2 GiB of .msi files. I know they are Windows Installer cache ...
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My c drive shows less size then it should be [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
I have 2 partition on 80 gb hdd. C drive is of 29gb. The property shows that used space is 28.5gb. But when I ...
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Windows 7 : Disk space : windirstat shows 88 GBs used : Windows shows 143 GBs used
The total disk space shown by the "scanner" program is 232GB and the innermost circle shows used space is 143GB.
When I check with WinDirStat the total files used are 88GB.
Does this mean that the ...
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Allocate free space to “C” Drive
I am facing a problem of low space in C drive where my Windows XP is installed. I have tried disk cleanup and other ways.
I would prefer to assign the free space of other partitions to the C ...
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Ways to reduce the disk size of Windows XP
According to Microsoft's documentation an installation of XP SP3 peaks at 1.5GB
However, in my case the actual size of C:\WINDOWS is 12 GB, amounting to a ten-fold difference.
Neither CCleaner nor ...
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No space on hard drive after installing Windows 7 Home Basic
Before I started installing Windows 7 Home Basic on my laptop I had 40GB of space on my hard drive, but after the installation I have no more free space available.
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How to start my VM in VMware Fusion with little disk space available
Due to some newly installed software packages my MacBook (Mac OS X 10.6.7) runs with little disk space available (~ 2.3 gb), which actually is enough for working right now. Currently I am on the go so ...
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How to update virtual machine disk space in VMWare?
I'm using Windows 7 on VMWare (i'm on mac).
In the hard disk settings of the virtual machine I've set Disk Size to 65GB, I've selected pre-allocate the space and Applied for it.
However when I run ...
