The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Recover disk space used by Windows installer
Updating to Windows 8 Pro on my PC consumed an additional 20 Gb or so and I'd like them back. How do I recover the space used by the installer / updater?
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What's the best audio format available when I want to convert my files?
I'm a music lover. I have lot of songs stored on my laptop, but the problem is I'm running out of space on my hard disk, because of the different audio formats which occupy lots of space.
Now I want ...
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3TB drive inside a 9 year old PC
I use a 9 year old PC (P4) as backup server, and need more space. I have Ubuntu 12.04 installed. Now I have one external 2TB drive that is full. I can buy another external 2TB drive, or a 3TB drive, ...
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How do I find out how much space a Metro App consumes in Windows 8?
For someone who is short on storage space (like on a Macbook Air -128 GB - Dual partition), each app counts towards storage. And what is the easiest way to find out?
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Do higher-capacity SSDs last longer?
I've been wondering about this for some time: Do higher-capacity SSDs last longer than smaller ones of the same type under the same operating operations? I would want to believe so because a larger ...
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Why do different unit parameters for `du` give conflicting results?
I get this output when checking the total amount of space I'm using on my Walkman.
david@Milton:/media$ du -b --max-depth=0 WALKMAN/
14823290693 WALKMAN/
david@Milton:/media$ du -k --max-depth=0 ...
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What are some tips on reducing the disk space used by Windows 7?
Does anyone have any tips on reducing the space used by Windows 7? So far I've got:
Empty Recycle Bin
Run Disk Cleanup Wizard
Use 'Programs & Features' control panel to uninstall unneeded ...
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Is it ok and how do I remove Windows Update installation files?
Whenever Windows updates, it sometimes/most times downloads installation files, and then uses those files to install the update onto the OS (correct me if I'm wrong on this assumption). What I want ...
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Why can't I extend the C: drive on Vista? Because I have Free Space to its right instead of Unallocated Space
Okay this is annoying!
I have a C: drive that is the primary partition (bootable) that I would like to extend.
In order to do that it seems like I need to have Unallocated Space to the right of the ...
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Get list of all installed software in each Virtual Machine
To manage my all virtual machines, I have purchased VMWare infrastructure but one thing I need eagerly is having:
status of machine,
a list of installed software and
disk usage
for each virtual ...
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How do I resolve the error message “Disk Defragmenter has deteced that CHkdsk is scheduled to run on the volume: (C:) Please run Chkdsk /f.”?
I have put the chkdsk /f on command prompt and have specified that I want it to run on this volume but even after restarting my computer it gives me the same error message.
Also, I have said No to ...
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How Much Space Do Empty Files Consume?
Windows reports both, empty files and folders, as taking up 0 bytes. Surely it takes something to store the file name, attributes, date [created/modified/accessed] etc.
How is this weighted?
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Free Duplicate mp3 finder
Sometime back I had used a duplicate file finder for mp3 by analyzing the content.Unfortunately it was not free and the shareware had a lot of limitations.
Are there any freeware/OSS ones to detect ...
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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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What is a safe way to move AppData\Local to a different drive?
I have a 60GB SSD as my C: where I have my Windows and other essential program installations. I also have a huge non-SSD D:.
I repeatedly find myself short of disk space on C:. The main culprits are ...
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Get extra hard drive space from Windows 7
I am using Ubuntu 12.04 and Windows 7 (dual-boot) on my laptop. For some reasons I want some more space in my Ubuntu partition.
I have installed gParted in Ubuntu. Now is it recommended to get this ...
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Ignore insufficient space while merging folders
The copy/move dialog in Windows Vista+ is nice including the ability to merge folders and the source analysis to determine if there is enough space before initiating the copy/move. One problem however ...
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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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What happens if wget runs out of disk space?
I'm about to run wget to mirror a large website for offline viewing. I'm worried the site might be too large for my hard drive and my download getting screwed up. Is there any way for me to figure out ...
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15 GB of unmovable files mysteriously created by extending Windows 7 system partition to the left
I had a my system partition (C) that was running out of space due to an extra partition I created to dual-boot Windows 8. After trying Windows 8, I've decided I prefer Windows 7, so I went about ...
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Windows 7 sees 100% free space
I installed Windows 7 Ultimate and it worked well. But I realized that I needed Windows 7 Professional. I installed the new edition. Then I tried to defragment my HDD (I use Ashampoo Winoptimizer 7), ...
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How to watch disk free space change on Linux?
As the title implies, I want to know how to watch disk free space change on Linux instead polling it periodically via statfs. When the free space is changed, a signal is emitted to allow the ...
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GB Calculation on SSD. Am I just lucky?
I have recently installed a OCZ Vertex Plus R2 VTXPLR2-25SAT2-120GB 2.5 120GB SATA II MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD) 120 GB SSD. I figured I would have about 110 to 112 GB knowing that hdd/ssd ...
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Running out of disk space on /home directory?
I have a 200GB HD and have just installed Linux Mint (12 - KDE) as the only OS (I formatted and wiped my previous Windows 7 installation). I am in the process of installing my "sandbox" and because ...
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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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Downsides of a small allocation unit size
Since I work in web development and bandwidth is always an issue, I make every effort to reduce the size of my files, especially images. As a result I have at least 10,000 files that are all around ...
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Turning 4 GB SD card into 2 GB SD (for AKAI MPC 2000xl)
I got a device (AKAI MPC 2000xl) that allows me to use 2GB SD cards only.
How can I format a 4 GB card to make device think that it is 2 GB?
Notes:
It is absolutely okay if I lose 2 GB of space.
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slim down disk space usage windows 7
How can I reduce the amount of hard drive space Windows 7 uses? I've got my Win7 cramped into a 10GB virtual machine, and with Office installed, I’m running out of space. The short answer 'use a ...
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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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Huge log files consuming entire hard drive
My hard drive keeps becoming full, and I thought it was just normal usage, but now that I pay attention, rsyslogd is hogging the CPU, and I think the drive is being filled by log files:
> la -S
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What is the “drive level/low space” warning threshold for Windows 7?
What is the limit for the theshold for Windows 7 to trigger a "low space" warning? (here indicated by the red bar) and is it customiseable? I think it is 10% but I am not sure and can't find any ...
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Do someone know how to use this 8 GB space in ny computer?
I have same thing from a long time. I want to extend this 8.31 GB to c or d any drive. I tried but I got a error. see reference image.
Do someone know how to do this in windows.
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Why would the root partion usage reported at login be substantially different from that reported by du?
Here's the disk usage I see when I login:
Welcome to Ubuntu!
* Documentation: https://help.ubuntu.com/
System information as of Fri Aug 10 06:52:37 UTC 2012
System load: 0.33 ...
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Does compressing all files on a 50% full disk partition slow down performance?
Windows Vista SP2, (uncompressed 100 GB Drive C is 50% full and Windows file indexing is on):
Drive C, where all the program files, \Windows folder and all my data is located is half full, enjoys ...
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What is the easiest way to free space on a hard drive?
My hard drive became full. I am looking for ways to locate the things that use most of my disk space. I played with cron once so it may have consumed a great deal of space, but really I have no clue.
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Extracting uncommon components from Windows installed on SSD
I have a 50gb SSD harddisk with windows 7 installed on it. I did this for performance for my windows installation and the related applications (Visual Studio, etc). In a projects folder I also store ...
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What app can i use to track disk space?
I dont know what is going on but my disk space seems to be going down and i am not downloading anything. What app can i use on windows to keep track of diskspace? I used windirstat which tells you how ...
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RedHat lost space
I have a problem with one server and I really don't know what happen, so I will appreciate any help/suggestion. On one partition have 42GB space. yesterday i saw that this partition is full 100% so i ...
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What are the consequences of running win7 without free space on the system partition?
I've experienced the situation for a few minutes; other then few warnings from OS, I didn't detect any immediate problems? What is the worst thing that could happen?
I'm aware that I will not be ...
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Whatever happened to compressed read/write filesystems?
Back in the 90s, my home computer was an Acorn Archimedes. It had on it a piece of software called ArcFS, which allowed you to create compressed archives, a bit like zip files.
Unlike zip files, they ...
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Disk Management is not working properly
My Windows 7 computer's Disk Management is not working properly. I can shrink the D: drive which is not primary partition, the unallocated space comes out. I then tried to create a new simple volume.
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Disk consumption in different OS [closed]
Why does Windows take so much disk space for itself?
~8GB for a just an OS. That's too much. For example, GNU/Linux with somewhat basic software pack (by basic software pack I mean www browser, ...
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ubuntu report wrong disk usage on /
On my ubuntu 11.10, /dev/sda3 (150GB) is mounted on / and /dev/sda1 (80GB) is mounted on /home. My entire disk has 250GB and the system is reporting I am running out of disk space. Here is the output ...
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135Gb disk has 2Gb free, but I can only find 65Gb of files on it. Wazzup? [duplicate]
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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Display filesystem's free space available to the root user
By default, Linux reserves some fraction of a filesystem for the root user, at least on ext4 (to prevent ordinary users from filling the drive completely and crashing the system, and to reduce ...
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how format a usb drive in the right way? (FAT 32 to NTFS)
I bought two usb drives (8 GB) a few days ago. One of them is HP a v245L - 8 GB and the other one is a Silicon Power - 8GB. Their format was FAT32, so i reformatted them to ntfs with my windows 7 ...
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FreeBSD: What is taking up all the space? I find df and du seem to be inconsistent
I have an old FreeBSD (5.3) server and I need to clear space from /var but I cannot seem to find what is taking up all the space. I have 6.8G of total space but I cannot seem to see that much data ...
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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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In Linux, is it possible to get a listing of drives' disk space usage that also shows volume labels?
I know about df, of course, but df does not output volume labels. I have 5 USB hard drives plugged into my NAS box, and would love to know which is which.
Current df output:
Filesystem ...
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Zerofree never ends. Is it doing anything?
I have been trying to use zerofree to reduce the size of my VM.
It worked fine for one filesystem, but the other was mounted on / so it wouldn't let me.
Then I figured I could use the 'recovery ...
