Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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What happens if C Drive storage increases more than 20GB overnight?
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Windows 10 user here. As the title says, somehow overnight my C drive has been populated with 20GB of data overnight. The situation happened recently, and is something new, as it has not ...
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What is the maximum size of a 2.5" HDD? (for laptops)
I'm having a hard time finding a 2.5" hard disk drive that is larger than 2TB is there a reason why that is? So far the only one I could find is the Seagate Barracuda but that's it, nothing from ...
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Used space of a disk is much larger than the size on disk of all files on that disk [duplicate]
I show the properties of D: disk and the used space is 193GB but when i select all files on disk D: and show properties, it displays 92.5GB size on disk.
Please help me explain that.
I tried to clean ...
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ExtensionActivityEdge file is large, can I safely delete it?.. can I stop it's growth?
The ExtensionActivityEdge file is large (3.8 GB -- C:\Users\SomeUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default)...
Can I safely delete it?..
Is there a way to configure it so that I stop/...
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Deleting files doesn't free up disk space, but did increase $BadClus by the file size
System: Windows 11, externally mounted 8TB HDD WD disk NTFS
Used TreeSize Duplicate Search (Jam Software), then deleted some files with the option "Move to Recycle Bin (if available)" turned ...
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Noticed very large space utilisation in linux LVs, how to find which file or what is responsible here?
I have two disks in my server with a LVs created and issue is on the one mounted on /.
I am aware of using find and sort to output the largest for some given number of lines.
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find / -type f -...
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OK to delete Windows.db file on PC?
Recently I've been having issues with my personal laptop's hard drive running out of space.
After scanning my PC with WinDirStat I noticed a file named "Windows.db" (located in C:/...
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Can't extend C partition with unallocated space. Due to a recovery partition is next to C drive [duplicate]
I just upgraded my laptop with a 2TB ssd by cloning the old 256G SSD. However I found the C drive volume can not be extended due to a "Recovery partition" is standing in between the ...
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Expand C drive to another empty disk? [duplicate]
Can I convert my disks to dynamic. Then add the free unallocated space from disk 0 to extend C drive volume?
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Epic games launcher redownloading symlinked files
Downloading a 150GB+ game on my SSD, I've symlinked some already downloaded files from the original D:\ directory to C:\ to free up space for new files yet to be downloaded, although symlinking files ...
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How can I figure out what files in AppData\Local\Temp I can delete safely?
My AppData\Local\Temp occupies 200GB, but cleanmgr.exe says
Temporary Files: 1.16MB
Why is there the difference?
How can I figure out what files in the folder I can delete safely?
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Why are there disk usage differences after backup/mirroring with robocopy?
I wanted to mirror the content from one disk (E:) to another disk (D:). If I compare them I see some file/folder/size differences and currently I don't know why ... Through exclusion I would expect ...
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How can I add space from my D drive to my C drive with different disks?
I'm running Windows 11 and my D drive has 1.8 TB of free space and my C drive only has about 30 GB left. I tried making unallocated space in my D drive but I couldn't allocate it to the C drive ...
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How does snap manage disk space?
When I opened nautilus, it showed that I have 3 Gb of disk space available. Then I installed a snap package. According to the properties of this snap directory, it takes up 3.6 Gb of space. However, ...
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What is taking up this space on my SSD that was once used as a system disk and how to reclaim it?
My PC came with a 1TB SSD only. (old C: drive)
I had a 500GB SSD added and made that the new C: drive and made the old 1TB SSD the new D: drive
There are no files on D: drive. Yet 47GB is taken up. ...
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WIndows 10: FIle Explorer disk C:\ usage and actual content size don't match
I have quite of a problem.
I have a 120GB SSD with two logical drives. One of them is a system one, 106GB in size. It has about 70GB of files and folders (incl. pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys).
I've ...
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Why does Windows always reports slightly wrong sizes when formatting a disk?
I've installed Windows probably thousands of times since Windows 3.1. I forget the situation in Win 3.1, but from Windows 95 onwards, Windows has never respected partition size reality, and as it's ...
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Is it possible to compact a VirtualBox .vdi image while the guest is running?
I've been searching for that question on Google, on this site and in VirtualBox forums and I couldn't find anything related to it. Since nowadays partitions can be resized, encrypted, cloned, ... ...
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System Volume Information folder huge
I have yet another problem with the System Volume Information folder on my machine. I'm using Windows 10 Home 21H2. The folder occupies ~150GB (that is ~60% of my C: drive)
Among other sources, I used ...
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INetCache/IE folder contains an incredible amount of files and consumes a lot of disk space?
By using WizTree I discover that inside INetCache\IE folder, there are around 5 million ++ files, and they consume 11.3 GB.
This is strange because
I don't use Internet Explorer on my Windows 10 ...
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Why WizTree showing inconsistent disk space usage?
My C Drive is SSD 256GB, but when I use WizTree, I got a lot of numbers that are different than the advertised disk space, which is 256GB.
As you can see, WizTree only reports 231 GB ( but shouldn't ...
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How to give extra disk space to root for Ubuntu update?
I'd like to upgrade Ubuntu to 22.04, but I get the following error:
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 11,4 G free
space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 2 817 M of ...
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Can I remove texlive-doc using 2.5 GB?
I'm trying to upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish, but I don't have enough disk space. Can I safely remove /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/ using a whopping 2.5 GB? I use Latex every day so if removing this ...
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Mapped Google Drive G: showing higher then expected space usage
When I log into the Google Drive web UI, it shows I have used "101.87 GB of 200 GB", so about 98 GB free.
However, when I click "This PC" from my laptop - which I have sync'd with ...
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Tell OneDrive Commercial not to download all of the files on a specific computer?
Is there a way to free up space on a computer by telling OneDrive Commercial, I no longer want to store all of these files on a local hard drive? But keep them on a different computer?
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Moving files under Users folder in C drive to D drive
I wish to move a folder that is located under Users folder in C drive to D drive in order to free up space. The folder is by my name and has things like pictures, downloads, documents, desktop, videos ...
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What can I safely delete in C:\Users\<MyUsername> ? At 22GB++ Is it too large?
As per the title, is it too much to have a 22GB Users folder ?
What can I delete, help, I am getting annoyed :-)
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Folder size in k4dirstat less than folder contents
It is happening in ntfs partition. What's is the cause?
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Clone windows hard disk and resize ntfs partitions from linux
I have a 500gb hard disk with two main NTFS partitions, one for a Windows OS and the other for data for use by that OS as well as the boot partition at the beginning of the disk. The data partition is ...
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How do I identify directories with growing disk space usage in Ubuntu and Btrfs?
How do I identify directories with growing disk space usage in Ubuntu and Btrfs?
Sometimes I notice that disk usage has increased considerably but I don't know which directory is responsible for the ...
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Windows - How do I undo 'sdelete -c C'?
sdelete is a tool for secure deletion, and the -c flag "cleans free space".
I ran this command sdelete -c C on a Windows 10 machine in an attempt to clean up free space on the C drive, but ...
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mounted disk space is not getting used automatically
HI I have attached a volume of 1TB to my Ubuntu server.
I can see the mounted disk in df -h.
/dev/vdb 1000G 1.1G 999G 1% /data
Note: /dev/vdb is the new mounted disk.
If I do fdisk -l, the error ...
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How can I increase my shrink volume on C drive?
My C drive has 37.7 GB free and I wanted to unallocate 30 GB to house my Linux root. But on disk manager, I couldn't seem to shrink beyond 304 MB. So I followed the Solution 1 in this link to deal ...
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disk usage of home directory is much larger than sum of disk usage of its sub-directories and files
Recently, the system (a desktop machine with Linux 5.18) reported disk space is nearly full. My machine has a 1TB ssd.
[zjs@manjaro ~]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev ...
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Deleting temporary system update files
I used a program (Greatis' StopUpdates10) to stop windows 10 updates for a long time. And I finally decided to restore updates. The system started updating and free disk space went from 35GB to 15GB ...
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brew uninstall does not work cause of no space left on device
I have low space left on my device and it was time to made some cleanup...
I removed a lot of things, trash, uninstall unused apps, caches, ... BUT
I installed "League of legends" for Mac a ...
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How to show all folder sizes of Android phone in Windows file explorer?
When I run space analysis it shows about 50GB of others, and I don't what is that exactly, so I wanted to manage the space on file explorer on windows 11, but the thing is it doesn't show the folder &...
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Transfering mirrored disks to different computer
I had two 3TB HDDs on my old computer. These were setup to be mirrored using Window's Disk Management util.
I am now trying to use those two HDDs on my new computer. I plugged them in using the ...
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Compare new/changed file sizes from one point in time to another
My problem is that I cannot find out where my disk space is being utilized after freeing space; for example I free 20GiB, then three days later it's used up despite me not downloading or transferring ...
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Synology - delete or decrease file versions to free up disk space
Synology CloudStation file versioning uses a lot of space so how can I free up some space? How can I see how much space file versioning used?
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Remote Servers Disk Space Report
I have writtern a script which will take the servers details from a text file and export the Disk space, RAM and CPU utilization details for multiple servers and the script is working a expected. ...
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Disk Space Report for Multiple servers
I have writtern a script which will export the Disk space, RAM and CPU utilization details for multiple servers and the script is working a expected. I just want to done change to the outfile i.e, ...
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External hard disk is showing more space than it should
I have a Seagate external hard disk. Out of sudden it is not detected on all the laptops.
I tried to use disk management, it came up as unknown and not initialized. I tried to initialize it to GPT but ...
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Windows showing different max SSD space then bios
I have inherited an AData 256GB ssd. Bios confirmed this is 256GB. Windows Explorer is showing 499MB of max space (364 KB free). I am wondering how come Windows Explorer is showing only 499MB? How ...
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Why are df and du command show inconsistent results?
When I run df -h it shows that 95% has been used in /data4 and I am the only user under /data4.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
overlay 591G 455G 136G 78% /
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Explorer crashed while moving files to external drive, amount of free space after that is wrong
During the weekend something strange happened, which I don't understand.
Maybe somebody smarter than me can help me out here.
Last weekend I had the idea to move some movie files from my internal D ...
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BTRFS and disk usage mystery
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 119G 113G 5.5G 96% /
and BTRFS agrees:
# btrfs fi df /
Data, single: total=111.00GiB, used=110.53GiB
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Losing hard drive space on my Mac and not sure why
I'm running MacOS Big Sur, Version 11.6 on a late 2020 MacBook Pro. I have a 1 Tb hard drive that had about 180 Gb free a few months ago, but I am progressively losing space. Now I have about 90 Gb ...
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Windows eating up all disk space
I have 118GB + 14GB backup SSD. The problem is that Windows folder alone is 64GB big + Users 10.5GB + SWSETUP 8GB. You can imagine I am running of the space fast. Is this normal?
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