The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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My 500GB external HDD is now only 150gb. What could have gone wrong?
Attempting to hand over my external HDD to a friend of mine for his use, I deleted all the files in my external HDD amount to freeing space close to 470GB. I did it all in my mac. For all I remember, ...
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“No space left on device” error in OpenWRT when there really is space
I ran into a problem with my application running on OpenWRT, where I write files to /tmp which is in RAM. Even though df reports that about 0% is used:
root@OpenWrt:/tmp# df
Filesystem ...
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total disk usage for a particular user
I would like to see the total disk usage for myself on a particular file system. I execute the command
`du -h ~my_user_name`
However, this lists every directory owned by my_user_name. I would like ...
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SanDisk USB drive - used space doesn't add up
I have a 32GB SanDisk USB drive (vfat partition type). It's as I received it - I haven't played around with the partitioning or added any encrypted sections or anything.
The disk properties show that ...
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lost space on the HDD after reinstalling windows
I have a 200 Gbs HDD with vista and I decided to install Ubuntu 12.10 over it, but I found that it erased all the partitions and data and showed the file system as 198 GBs, so I tried to reinstall the ...
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How can I check which part of my linux system uses the most disk space?
I'm having a ubuntu server that is running out of disk space(36GB out of 37GB). I used several methods to check the disk usage, but sounds like the result is quite vague to me.
I used following ...
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Backup bootable USB flash in Mac OS X
I have a bootable USB. It runs Linux. The size of USB pen is 8Gb, and linux partitions take less than 200Mb.
$ diskutil list
/dev/disk0
#: TYPE NAME SIZE ...
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Why would differential backups take less space than full or incremental backups?
According to this article from Microsoft
Differential backups require even less disk, tape, or network drive
space than incremental backups.
Backup time is faster than full or incremental backups.
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HTC Desire SV shows only 1.11 internal Hard Disk memory [closed]
I got new HTC Desire SV about which specs says that it has 4 GB internal memory,
BUT when I go to settings > Hard Disk it sows me 1.11 GB Total Memory... the same when I Connect it to PC.
Is is the ...
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C:\System Volume Information is taking up 60 GB
I decided to do some spring cleaning on my laptop, and used a disk analyzer to free up some space on my C drive. I've managed to go from about 13 to about 33 GB of space, but I noticed that I was only ...
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Can I use cp to backup and restore Linux
On the same physical machine, the partitions of / and /home are both not large enough. I cannot extend the two partitions directly, since they are the last two partitions. I deleted the two partitions ...
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Multiple hard drive installation
My motherboard has 4 SATA ports. I have 16 Seagate Barracuda hard drives (3 TB each). If it is possible, how do I install these hard drives in my computer?
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size of the disk is more than the size of the files on the disk
I am using windows 7. my c: drive capacity is 75 gb. where the Os is located. The size of the files on the disk is only 50 gb including hidden files. But used space of c drive shows 60Gb. Where the ...
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du which counts number of files/directories rather than size
I am trying to clean up a hard drive which has all kinds of crap on it accumulated over the years. du has helped reduce disk usage, but the whole thing is still unwieldily not due to the total size, ...
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Loop through folder with higher space usage in shell? [duplicate]
I would like to create an script where give me a report of which folders have the higher usage space and keep doing that until there's no folder anymore.
Today I do this manually, with:
sudo du -h ...
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Win 8 after BSOD huge amount of diskspace is missing
Recently got a BSOD on my PC without a reason (in Win8 it looks much funnier :)), after that I've notised that around 10gb on system partition space is missing. I've checked and cleaned memory dumps, ...
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Unable to create folder/file on root in spite of free space
Since some time I am unable to create file/folder on root.
I always log in as root and was able to work properly.
My experience is as follows:
# pwd
/root
# mkdir xcxcx
mkdir: cannot create ...
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Awkward Windows 8 Pro Disk Space Usage [closed]
guys. I installed Windows 8 Pro in my netbook and I allocated 120 GB for it. Expecting it to use about 16 GB of disk space, when I checked the Properties of my Windows 8 installation, Windows 8 only ...
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*nix shellscript: Get disk usage on multiple OSs
I am trying to get the usage-percentage for a given disk in a system. The program I have to write will be a bash shell script. The script has to work on Debian, Arch, and Mac OS X.
My current ...
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714Gig HD partition shows 652Gig full - only 285Gigs used - NOT DUPLICATE [duplicate]
PLEASE HELP - but this is NOT A DUPLICATE question - please don't mark it as such before reading it. Several people marked last posting that way - clearly didn't read it. Yes, I have read through ...
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Add/Remove programs interface not accurate?
I installed dBpoweramp long time ago but it's only now that I noticed it's using 16GB of space (or as the Win7 Add/Remove programs interface says so).
I checked the installation folder of dBpoweramp ...
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750Gig Hard Drive shows full with only 315Gigs used
I have a Win7 laptop with a 750Gig C: drive. It came partitioned with 714Gig usable from manufacturer. I installed programs, music files, etc up to 285 gigs. As of a few weeks ago it showed 285 ...
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How can I alter the temporary folder for Dropbox on the Linux CLI?
The /tmp partition on the server I'm working on is only 2GB and has previously been filled up by Dropbox and was since disabled. I need to re-enable dropbox but set a different temporary directory for ...
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Why make a partition at all for mdadm/raid?
i have 4 disks, sd[a,b,f,g] of various sizes that I want to 'merge' together. I am using mdadm to achieve this.
my question is, what's the difference between --
mdadm --create /dev/md0 ...
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Not enough disk space when doing a SOAP request on mac osx
I'm on Mac osx, I'm sending a SOAP request and the response is:
There is not enough space on the disk.
<s:Envelope xmlns:s="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
<s:Body>
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HDD went full while screen recording
I was using CamStudio 2.7, while all af a sudden I got a message from vista stating that my drive is full. I checked my drive and indeed there were only 30MB left(from ~7GB which were before the ...
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155 GB in c drive used up. 50 GB used in minutes. Windows 7
My laptop has Windows 7 home premium. OS is installed on C drive. The C drive has some 155 GB but currently only 1.17 GB is free.
I deleted contents of my download folder and moved the contents from ...
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What if I checked the box “Compress this drive to save disk space” on an SSD?
I was wondering how it would effect an SSD if this was checked:
I was just curious whether it would save my SSD disk space?
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Why is the folder size (in properties) different from the total file/folder sizes in the folder?
Here's my problem
I'm trying to do a cleanup of my hard drive, and I'm constantly seeing this scenario:
(1) Aggregate folder size: I check the folder size viewing properties right clicking the ...
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300GB Boot Camp partition shows as only 64GB when running Windows
I have been struggling for some time with the available disk space not showing in Windows Explorer when using Boot Camp.
I used DU to partition my 500GB SSD for around 200GB for the Mac and 300GB for ...
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Ubuntu Free Disk Space dwindles to zero until reboot
I have a ubuntu server with smbd ftp and a http server. For some reason the freedisk space will go from 2 gb down to 0 bytes as time goes on (usually a couple of days). However once i reboot, the disk ...
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Lost hard drive space after clone
I'm running XP and just cloned the current hard drive to a new SSD. After cloning my new SSD is exactly the same size as the drive I cloned from (80GB) - not 128GB as it should be.
I assumed there ...
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Will switching my driver to my installed memory make my watching streams smoother [closed]
I have an Acer aspire x3810 that has 2% free space in ACER(c:),(3.32GB), and has 87% free
space in DATA(D:).122.55GB. Will moving files and programs to this other storage help my gaming and watching ...
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Get disk/partition size in batch file
How to get total size of a disk or partition(a USB hard drive with 1 NTFS partition) in a batch file?
I would rather not go for logic that go over files recursively(the ones with for /f) since it's a ...
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What is using up this space in Linux?
Here's my output of df -h:
[root@box root]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00
1.8T 231G 1.5T 14% /
/dev/sda3 ...
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Shrink VDI disk
I have vdi file for a disk of 40GB. The vdi file itself is 36GB. I made some room in the disk and was able to resize the partition of the disk to 20GB, leaving an unpartitionned space of 20GB.
I ...
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devices after rsync df output not matching for “used” quantity?
I am making a backup from a two software RAID eSATA 2 TB drives formatted as ext4 to a 2 TB LaCIE rugged drive formatted as ext3. After re-formatting the rugged drive I did an rsync to make the copy ...
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HTML/web-app equivalent to WinDirStat?
WinDirStat and equivalent programs will scan a disk or directory, and produce a graphical report of what's using the disk space (Screenshot).
Is there any equivalent program which can run on the ...
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Space ending in rootfs
My problem is that I think in a couple of days there will be no space free in rootfs.
Is is possible somehow to 'clear' rootfs from unnecessary files? What should I look for?
Rootfs is mounted into ...
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Monitoring linux free disk space
I am looking for a solution that will monitor several linux (maybe windows) hosts on a given network, gathers free space, CPU usage, etc... "counters" and "publishes" this to a central location which ...
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Missing disk space on SSD despite no paging file or hibernate.sys
I've been completely unable to find an answer as to why my SSD is missing ~20GB of space that doesn't include decreasing the size of the paging file, disabling hibernation or extending the volume in ...
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Weird Disk space usage Ubuntu 10.04
I have an ubuntu 10.04 server. For the past couple weeks, or as long as I can remember my disk space was going down by about 1 kb per minute (I assume from the massive logs). However all of a sudden ...
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How to make dual boot by getting free space from Windows XP Primary Drive
I want to go for Dual boot with Windows XP and Ubuntu currently, Windows already installed in system with partitions as
C: 270GB (Primary Drive);D:10 GB and E:92 GB
I want to get 100 GB from C: ...
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Mac Lion OS X - I deleted files, but the disk free space is not increased
I had on Mac Lion OS X just 0.5GB of free space, so I deleted like 15 GB movies => OS X wanted to confirm this operation by filling out the password => I did it and the files were deleted.
I checked ...
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How can I use my unallocated space after using 4 partitions already?
I have windows 8/Ubuntu 12.10 dual boot and i have 300 GB unallocated space in my HDD but whe i try to create a new partition it tells me that i have reached the maximum number of partitions(in both ...
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Disk Space Monitoring
I'm looking for a simple way of getting an email alert whenever the diskspace of a server gets above X % or has less than X Mb free.
I don't need anything too special, I don't need graphs or ...
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Free Disk Space running low over night (Win 7)
I noticed the last days that I got mysterious warnings on low disk space and I can't determine what occupies my free space.
So last night I had 5GB of free space and this morning I'm down to 800MB. ...
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Disk Used Space Anamoly viz Actual Space Used by Files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 - mysteriously missing free HDD space
I just got my Laptop and was transferring the content from my Previous Laptop. My Current Laptop has about 326 GB in C:. ...
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SSD appears to be full, it isn't (Windows 7, NTFS)
I installed windows 7 Pro x64 on a 128 GB Adata SX300 SSD yesterday (clean install after full format, SSD is brand new) and installed a bunch of programs and all available updates from windows update. ...
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How do I change the LUN of my physical disk?
How can I change the LUN of my physical drive?
Will the LUN be allocated for each partition in Linux?
