The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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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 ...
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Why is windows 7 taking up so much hard drive space?
I have just built a computer with a 60GB SSD and a 2TB HDD. After installing windows 7 home premium, the drivers, chrome, and running windows update a few times it now only has 11GB left on the SSD. ...
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Logical disk lose free space? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Windows 7 - mysteriously missing free HDD space
I have a logical disk (E): 250GB, all files' size is 223GB, but when I click to the disk, It show the disk used 237GB. ...
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Move specific rarely used or non-performance critical files off SSD
I was trying to make some more space on an SSD boot drive today since it is getting very tight for space with C:\Windows stuff and applications that seem to insist on putting stuff on the system ...
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Newly formatted (NTFS) external hard drive already has 'Used space'. What determines the used space's amount? Is it correlated to the HD's capacity?
I just bought a new external hard drive (WD Elements - 1 TB). In a PC with Windows 7, I formatted it by Right-clicking the drive > Format (Quick Format - NTFS) before using it and, and then checked ...
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What's the minimum recommended free space on a Windows XP partition?
I have a laptop running Windows XP (SP2) with 2GB RAM and a further 2GB page file. It's a company machine, so I have to work with what I'm given and can't add any more storage or memory.
What's the ...
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Diskspace on FreeBSD as a numeric value
I wonder if there is a way to get the capacity of a disk as a numeric value in FreeBSD.
I don't want to use df because it doesn't return a single numeric value, du -sch / takes too much time summing ...
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Fedora Linux Disk Usage Analyzer falsely reports root at 100% full
I've got a box setup with Fedora 16 that I'm currently using for a small home server.
I was having some issues with samba sharing when I ran the disk usage analyzer and found that while I have a ...
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Something eating space on OS drive
I am facing low disk space issue from last few days. I checked with Restore,System Volume Information, $Recycled folders. But there is nothing which is occupying space. I had scanned my system for ...
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Disk Partition on Ubuntu
I have a 750 GB hard disk and GB RAM. I will setup LAMP on my system.
Now my problem is, how I will make the disk partiton so that I will keep 300 GB for my localhost and the rest of memory will be ...
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What should I consider when deciding on how to manage huge personal data? [closed]
I have huge data which contains images, pdf files, application installers and other utility software's with around 600 GB movie collection.
I would like to take suggestion how I can sort the same so ...
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Can files in C:\WINDOWS\Temp be deleted and does Disk Cleanup do so?
It appears that files which currently aren't in use can be safely deleted from the C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder... Why doesn't Disk Cleanup offer to do this automatically?
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Disk-use tool that's hard-link aware [closed]
What tools, akin to Treesize Free (and others of that ilk) are there that are hard-link aware? Either my google-fu is failing, or there aren't that many out there as I haven't yet found one.
I've ...
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How can I free up some space in my C: drive?
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 before being able to save my intended file.
But the more I search ...
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Suse linux installed in VMWare not using it's full diskspace
I have a linux server (SUSE Enterprise 11) installed in a virtual machine. Where preallocated disk space is given as 256 GB. But from the linux if I use df -h command it show this statistics:
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New 320GB Hard Disk, but can only see 132GB
I have a Acer Ferrari 3400 laptop with a 80GB drive installed and Windows XP. Cloned the 80GB disk to a 320GB but could boot from it. So I loaded up Windows XP CD and at the format hard disk part I ...
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Linux disk usage graphical statistic tools like WinStatDir
Is there a tool like WinStatDir that can present a graphical stats of disk uage? Showing folders/files in different size of rectangles by its disk usage. Looks like Mac has similar drive visualization ...
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Files to remove from Windows XP to save space
I'm in the process of backing up an XP system, and I'm trying to save as much space as I can for long term storage. I would like to know what directories that might accumulate with time I can safely ...
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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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Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer?
I've been looking on an XP machine what is using all that diskspace, and it turns out C:\Windows\Installer is high up there on the list of directories that use the most diskspace.
It seems to contain ...
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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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Is there a Windows command-line utility to list largest files exceeding specific size in sub-directories?
Would like to be able to find full paths of files in a directory tree that exceed a specific size (say 10MB).
Currently aware of Microsoft's Diruse (part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools) ...
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Does a recursive disk-space-usage pie-chart web-page generator exist for Linux?
Does anyone know of a per directory ( not per user) disk space usage pie chart generator script for linux? I want to generate a set of web pages that will give me the usage of each directory, and ...
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I want to move winsxs folder to another drive. Possible? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 [duplicate]
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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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Why does my Windows folder use 75 GB? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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 is my free space
I'm using Pinnacle Studio 12 to edit some videos and as you can guess it uses a lot of resources. The problem is that it eats all my free space from the C drive and after I close the application I ...
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Where are 25 GB of missing disk space on my SSD? [duplicate]
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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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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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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Why doesn't Windows XP show “Total Size” and “Free Space” for USB flash disks?
When I double click on My Computer, I can immediately see the Total size and Free space for internal and external HDDs, and inserted CD/DVD media, but in the same columns I cannot see these values for ...
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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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Almost half of disk space unaccounted for on Windows 7 computer
I'm trying to determine what's eating almost half of disk on my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop but haven't been able to determine what. I read some of the answers on this site but none of the causes seems ...
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Why does my freshly-formatted disk have 450 MB of data on it?
The answer is probably obvious, but I'm sure enquiring minds want to know: if I erase a disk and reformat it, what's already taking up almost half a gigabyte of space? In this case, it's formatted ...
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Amount of free disk space getting smaller every day
I am running Symantec antivirus on a Windows XP machine. The amount of free disk space I have in C: has been dropping every day for the past 15 days.
I have been emptying my Recycle Bin, and I only ...
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How do install of “Windows 7 Upgrade” on VirtualBox (for use on OS X) w/ minimal disk use? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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What stuff can safely be deleted/uninstalled from a fresh Windows 7 install?
My Windows 7 install is a bit portly - using well over 6GB.
I've tried my usual favourite CCleaner and that didn't come up with much at all. It removed only a couple of megabytes.
Any ideas on what ...
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Disk space - when to concern oneself about it?
My operating system is Windows 7 Vista Home Edition, and I have a 464 GB disk drive.
So far I have used 198 GB out of it.
As I understand it - 464 GB = 464 x 1,024 MB = 475,136 MB.
196 GB = 196 x ...
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How to expand C drive in window 2003
My C drive is 18GB.
I have other 18GB unpartined space on same HD.
I know that in vista i have the option to expand the disk by going in diskmanagement .
How can i do in window 2003
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best Graphical disk space explorer utility for Ubuntu?
what is the best disk space explorer utility for linux?
I want to see folder wise size graphically, which folder has taken how much disk space.
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Delete turned-off features in Windows 7
Windows 7 lets you enable or disable optional components with the "Turn Windows Features On and Off" dialog, but all components continue to be stored on the hard drive, just in case you decide you ...
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Quick overview of disk space on windows 7/ vista
One feature I miss from xp is the ability to hover over disks and quickly see their used/total space.
Can anyone let me know if this can be turned on in vista/7 or any other solutions?
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Where is my free space? [duplicate]
A week ago I got a low disk space warning on my Vista x64 Ultimate box - 60 Mb free on the disk C; I cleaned up some downloaded msdn images and got 20 Gb freed up. Three days ago I got another ...
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Windows 7: What is \Windows\Temp?
Trying to figure out where all the room on my new laptop went I found over 90GB eaten up by my c:\Windows\Temp directory.
None of these files I recognize and many seem to have not changed in months. ...
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Graphical Monitor for HDD usage [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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, ...
