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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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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Why am I missing space on my hard drive in Windows? [duplicate]
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Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
I have an HP Pavilion DM4 with a 750 GB hard drive. A few days ago, I installed Windows 8 on it, so I am now ...
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Free disk space in Windows 7
One of the OS I frequently use is Windows 7. Unfortunately I recently ran out of partition space (partition D:, which has total size 668GB). I uninstalled some big, unused applications. However I ...
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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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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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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 mode'...
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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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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 drive....
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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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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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CCleaner erased most of the free space
I tried to use "Erase free space" from CCleaner in Mac. I was not sure about how it would work. When the process started there was about 175 GB of space available, and when the space started to ...
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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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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 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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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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cvs delete project (module) and reclaim space
We have modules under CVSROOT that were created a while ago, but no more required/ever used or needed. They are just sitting there are consuming disk space.
Is it safe to physically delete this ...
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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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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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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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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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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 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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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
/dev/mapper/vg00-...
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Can I delete files from C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download? [duplicate]
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 C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\...
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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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I want to move winsxs folder to another drive. Possible? [duplicate]
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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 drive, ...
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My Windows folder takes up too much space - how can I reduce it?
In typical PCs the Size of Windows Folder is 6 to 8 GB but in my Case its 25GB. How can I delete the unwanted files from the Windows Folder (which, in turn, will optimize my C Drive size).
My system ...
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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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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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track disk usage over time in linux
I know I can use df to get a summary of disk usage right now.
I can use du to break down into the detail of how the disk is being used.
The problem is I can only see this information for today.
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Why does my Windows folder use 75 GB? [duplicate]
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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 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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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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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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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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How do I remove the remnants of data from my C: drive?
I have installed Cygwin software which contains C++ and c compiler, debugger and some more things. Later on I decided to install all what Cygwin contains in itself. But I run out of memory on C: disk. ...
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How do install of "Windows 7 Upgrade" on VirtualBox (for use on OS X) w/ minimal disk use? [duplicate]
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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 a ...
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Graphical Monitor for HDD usage [duplicate]
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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, so I'd ...
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total disk space among directories
I have this structure in my linux filesystem:
/folder
...subfolder1
......temp/
...subfolder2
......temp/
...subfolder3
......temp/
...subfolder4
......temp/
...subfolder5
......temp/
And I want to ...
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Windows 7 volume missing
after cleaning C:\Windows directory from $path\SoftwareDistribution I won 2GB.
It's okay, and I'm trying to install Visual Studio 2010. Everything went ok and C:\Windows size increased to 17GB. ...
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Over 20GB of disk space is gone?
System drive, OS is Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate.
Windows Explorer shows 100GB of used space.
TreeSizeFree shows 75GB of used space.
Total Commander and FAR confirm TreeSizeFree's measurements (...
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History Timeline of free disk space on a windows system
What is a good and simple tool to monitor and graph free disk space over time on a windows machine?
The usual disk visualization tools are not a good fit, as the result should be an timeline of the ...
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Graph free disk space on windows systems
What is a good and simple tool to monitor and graph free disk space over time on
a windows machine?
The usual disk visualization tools are not a good fit, as the result should be an timeline of the ...
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Size Of Paging File
Why is paging size necessary and why does it balloon now and then.
I am using Core 2 Quad. With Windows 7 Professional x32 and 4 GB RAM, still the paging file size is huge near 2.96 GB in C drive.
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/dev/sda1, /tmp,/dev/shm
I'm actually putting some files into temporary folder /tmp. And I want to know the capacity of /tmp. I do the 'df -h':
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Offline folders says there is not enough free space on the drive - but there is (Windows 7)
I have been using Windows Offline Folders for some years now, without too much hair torn out.
However, after reinstalling Windows and setting up my tried-out configuration, synchronization stops ...