The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Hard Drive missing drive space
I have a 500 GB hard drive which I previously attached to my Mac. I detached the drive without going through the eject procedure. When I did this a message showed up, which of course I did not read. ...
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Can I delete .msp files?
I have a load of .msp files that i would like to delete, will this harm my system at all?
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how can i tell whats takign up all my hard drive space? [duplicate]
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Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
does anyone know a free software that will graph the directories on my hard drive and sort them in order of ...
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how to tell whats eating my harddrive space? [duplicate]
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Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
does anyone know a free software that will graph ...
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Where did 100GB go?
I have Ubuntu installed on my laptop.
cfdisk shows 150GB hard disk which is correct.
Baobab shows 56GB only.
Also, wherever I try to download something using Transmission torrent client it ...
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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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HP MediaSmart server system disk full
I have a HP MediaSmart Server (EX 490) with Windows Home Server out of the box. It comes with a single 1.0 TB drive partioned 20 GB for the System disk. The system disk keeps filling up. I haven't ...
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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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What's a good Windows Vista utility to check which directories occupy the most hard disk space? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
My Windows partition has 46+GB space and all I have is 5GB left. I'm pretty sure I don't have around 40GB worth ...
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Rebuilding tree of reiserfs partition with no free space left
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=qqq bs=1M count=40
$ mkfs.reiserfs -f qqq
ReiserFS is successfully created on qqq.
$ mountlo-0.6 qqq ~/mnt/tmp
$ cat /dev/frandom > ~/mnt/tmp/qqq
cat: write error: No space ...
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how to investigate extremely fast disk usage
I just freed 3GB from my hard drive and now, 5 minutes later, I got the warning "you're running on extremely low disk space". How can I find out which program is eating up my disk that fast? Thanks.
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Hard Drive Shows 122 GB used after fresh install of Windows, 18 GB of actual files?
I just installed Win 7, but did not format the drive. Windows shows that 122 GB of drive space has been consumed. Clearly this seems strange, so I selected everythign under the C: drive (including ...
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USB Drive showing 1.46GB Available on OS X
I have a Flash Drive which shows only 1.46GB of space available on Mac OS X. It was having problems on Windows, so I ran an HP utility. (I can't find the original SU question)
What could be wrong and ...
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Missing disk space in Windows XP
On my mother's Lenovo laptop, Windows XP claims that the hard drive is almost full. According to the properties window, 52.7 out of 55.2 GB is in use:
By deleting temp files from Internet Explorer, ...
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Raid 5 - magic, vodoo or plain witchcraft?
In a raid 5 setup, you get 4 TB of usable space out of 3 x 2 TB disks. How is that possible?
Simple minded as I am, I would think that you need 4TB to store your things, and use the remaining 2TB for ...
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Windows not showing correct free space on my hard drive
I recently upgraded my laptop's secondary HDD from a 320GB Western Digital to a 640GB Samsung. Before performing the hardware swap, I created a disk image of my drive, and saved it to an external USB ...
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Compact disk utilizes 650 of 700 Mb
A normal compact disk has a size of 700 MB but it only holds data upto 650 MB. What is the other 50 MB utilized for?
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how to extend Virtual Box harddrive?
I run WinXP SP3 on my Virtual Box (3.2.10) under OSX 10.6.2 and the harddrive of the virtual box is getting too small.
Can I
extend exiting hdd somehow?
create new Virtual Box from a running ...
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Brand new external hard drive has 133MB used space?
I just purchased a brand new WD Elements 1.5TB Hard drive.
I have deleted all the files that were on it, even the hidden ones, and done a "Quick Format" through windows explorer.
Yet, when I look at ...
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Where is the Missing Disk Space on Linux Software Raid
Purchased (4) 2TiB Drives (actual disk space) and created a RAID5 array expecting to have 6TB of useable disk space, however actual useable space is 5.46TiB.
So, the question is where did the disk ...
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Can I (re)move Microsoft Help files?
I have limited profile space and it seems that Visual Studio and Office insist on filling it up with "Microsoft Help" files. The are located in C:\Users\%USERNAME%\AppData\Local\Microsoft Help (I'm on ...
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What commands produce the Free and Available results in Ubuntu System Monitor File Systems tab?
Ubuntu 9.10 System Monitor (gnome-system-monitor) tab File Systems has several columns labeled: Device, Directory, Type, Total, Free, Available, Used. What command line commands would produce the Free ...
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Windows XP - Not reporting all used drive space
I've got an Issue with a Windows XP SP3 machine that seems to be mis-reporting the drive space in use.
The machine has a 74.4 GB drive formatted in NTFS and using Treesize Free, is only showing as ...
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Disk map software needed [closed]
I'm looking for some disk mapping software for Windows (a software that graphically displays disk space usage) that doesn't use Cushion Treemaps.
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Disk is full after runing gparted?
I have around a 150gb hard drive that I had fully allocated to Ubuntu 10.10. I fired up the gparted live cd and reduced it by 47gb for a small ntfs partition for Windows.
When it was completed, I ...
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Where did my disk space go - small NTFS partitions on Windows 7 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
This might be a duplicate, but my current search can't find the answer.
I've created a simple ...
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linux df and OSError: [Errno 28] No space left on device
I've got a weird inconsistency (although I'm probably just missing something quite basic).
While running some script that generates small files on my I disk, I constantly get this error:
OSError: ...
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What would be the best way in which to regain performance from my machine [duplicate]
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Best Optimization Tips for Windows
All,
my laptop is becoming increasingly slow so I am looking for ways to regain performance as it was on the last rebuild (I have to ...
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Linux script to fill up my diskspace
I need a script to fill up my diskspace on my Linux box. It would be best if I can leave 200 MB free. I have Nagios installed, and it should email me when something like this happens, but how do I ...
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Check folder sizes and report combined size for identical named folders in Linux
I have 2 folders that have subfolders (named after users), most subfolders exists in both folders, but not all. Now I want to create a list of space used by each user.
I can use the following command ...
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Hard Disk is full but not due to files [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What's using up my disk space?
Hello!
I have a 40 GB hard drive which is full in explorer (10 MB remaining). The drive is NTFS running Windows 7.
In Explorer, I go ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 Recurring Low Disk Space issues
I am running Ubuntu 10.04 on one 80GiB disk partitioned as two equal. The second one is mounted as my home folder. The reasons for the partitioning are historic and I don't think they're relevant ...
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Good disk use visualization for a Linux VPS?
I have a VPS which is a little starved for disk space. Long term plans call for moving to a system with a bigger disk but in the meantime I need to take a look at the existing disk use and clear up ...
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Program to display packages by their size in Ubuntu
I managed to fill up my Ubuntu partition by installing large number of packages. When I was installing them, I was thinking about future, so there is a number of packages which I will not use for ...
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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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Free space partition
I'm wanting to refine my understanding of what 'free space' is on a computer. Doing my background reading I've come to see that their are two instances in which 'free space' is referenced. I don't ...
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Need an app that tells about file & folder sizes
I need an app that tells about file & folder sizes, like what is the biggest file and/or folder on my hard disk, sort this detail from biggest file and/or folder to the smallest & vice versa, ...
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How can I make some space on drive C:?
My setup from the factory (Asus eee top) is as follows:
C: - 40GB - Windows Vista
D: - 181GB - data
Right now there is 677MB free space on C:. Can I clear out some stuff? What should I clear out? ...
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Disk Space Requirements
I want to know the minimum space requirement for each version of Windows (XP-7)?
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disk sapce visualizer with delete function
Is there a tool that let me (recursively) visualize how much diskspace space directories and files (!) consume on my disk and that lets me delete directories and files (!) which would result in a on ...
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Hidden files in Disk Usage Analyzer
How do I get Ubuntu's "Disk Usage Analyzer" to show me the hidden files?
It tells me my home dir uses 3GB, but only accounts for 525MB (the results of du -shc *). Can I get it to show me the other ...
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Freeing space on iMac by removing CS4?
I'd like to remove Adobe Master Collection CS4 from my iMac, but I've installed CS5 as well. Will manually deleting CS4 be an effective way to clean things up? I want to avoid leaving junk around, but ...
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Who decides the RAID levels and architecture?
Is there some governing body that comes up with the specifications for different RAID levels?
If not, how are they decided?
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Symantec anti-virus is filling up my harddrive
I've been tracking down where all my disk space is being used and I found out that this folder:
C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\
Application Data\Symantec\Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition\7.5
...
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What process manages disk storage in Windows?
Which Windows process is responsible for determining the low level space management and allocation?
For example, that the data goes to this block, this segment etc.
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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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Lost disk space in Windows 7, cannot find the missing
My hard drive is complaining it is low on disk space, but a strange thing seems to be happening:
Explorer reports 10Gb of available space (on a 120 Gb hard disk), chkdsk in the command prompt does the ...
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Decompress using Winrar, and now I have no disk space?
i have a hard drive, with 2 partitions.
drive C:, D:, and ofcourse my dvd-rom drive which is E:
i have a compressed file on my D: and its roughly 1.3 gigs, but when i try to decompress it to the ...
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Remote disk usage analyzer over SSH from OS X?
On Ubuntu, I enjoyed the disk usage analyzer "Baobab" to drill down into my file system and see what was taking up so much space. One invaluable feature was to connect to a remote system over SSH and ...
