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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"Size on disk" column missing in Windows Explorer?
I decided to use the "compress this drive to save space" option on my backup drive, which simply houses a Windows Server Backup.
I learned that when viewing file properies for files on a drive using ...
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Why is the free disk space on an external drive varying wildly while copying files on it?
I'm using Windows 8.1 Explorer to copy image files from my Android mounted as media device, onto an SSD connected via a USB 2.0 drive enclosure (NTFS).
While the copying goes on, the free disk space ...
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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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Limiting Disk Space Usage For A Process In Linux
I need to have an ability to limit a certain process for using too much disk space.
Saw that this can be solved using containers (here).
Is there anyway to do that in a native way? (Ubuntu 16.04) Disk ...
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macOS 10.13.1 High Sierra Disk Space iMac
I cannot determine what could possibly be taking up so much of my 1TB startup disk.
I have moved most applications to another disk and moved home directories and still receive your disk is almost ...
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Expanding a FreeNAS/ZFS pool by migrating to Storage Spaces Parity
I currently have 3x4TB drives in a RAID-Z1 configuration using FreeNAS, which give me approx. 8TB of usable space in a single volume. I'm approaching 6TB, so I'm considering my options for expansion/...
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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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Windows Disk Cleanup pretends to delete Windows Update files over and over
My C: drive has less than 1 GB free.
I want to recover some of it so I run [Disk Cleanup] on it, then
click [Clean up system files] and authorize it. It takes
minutes to finally show a list of ...
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Macintosh HD volume reduced after error during Bootcamp Partition
I was creating a new partition with bootcamp assistant, when this screen came up:
your computer restarted because of a problem
When the computer was on again, I checked my disk utility and the ...
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Different used disk space with du and quota
If I run quota I get:
Disk quotas for user XXXXXX (uid xxxx):
Filesystem blocks quota limit grace files quota limit grace
/dev/md2 1119132* 1048576 2097152 none 6 0 ...
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What causes files to use up more more disk space than the file size suggests?
du was showing some drives with much less space than I was expecting, and ls -alh also showed the sum at the top to be a factor of three more than the sum of the individual files. Following this ...
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320 GB drive seen as 60 GB drive in My Computer
The original questions was asked in 2009. Upgrade to a laptop using a 320 GB drive. When the new drive was formatted it was seen by the system as a 320 GB drive. (Small loss from OS so it was actually ...
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Extra free space when moving a hard drive to an external enclosure
My secondary 1TB internal hard drive filled up recently, so I bought a 2TB disk to replace it. The cheapest 2TB disk I could find was actually a Buffalo Drivestation USB3 enclosure. I used SyncToy ...
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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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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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Rsyslog fills up disk - unexpected behaviour
I have a rsyslog that forwards messages to elasticsearch. It worked well for over a year but recently the disk starts to fill mysteriously until it reaches 100%.
When I restart the process the disk ...
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Black screen in Ubuntu VM prevents me from resizing it
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While using my Ubuntu 20.04 VM, got the following warning
Clicking Examine one can see the following
In this case, the trash has only one file with 50,8 MB
so while one could trash it, ...
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du shows large space but inside directory it doesn't show the space
I've been trying to track down used space with du, and I'm seeing some odd behavior.
[root@server01 /]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/xvda2 32G 32G 190M 100% /
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VIRTUALBOX RESIZE PARTITION | Archlinux | guest not recognizing new increased disk size
UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20190206@094017@WED Post created
UPDATED-STATEMENT: 20190208@153938@FRI Attempted to resize partition but unable to get more than 8GB for root or sda2 in my case
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1.5TB hard drive showing as 500Gb
I have a Samsung 1500GB hard drive (HD155UI) that started life as a external hard drive. It was later removed from its enclosure and placed in a gaming computer. After this, it was removed from the ...
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How is it possible in this `cat` process that more bytes are being written than read?
I ran the following bash command to merge several big files
cat file1.txt file2.txt file3.txt file4.txt > merged.txt
The process is very long as the files make about 12 GB each. On the activity ...
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What takes up so much space in the newer (Vista, 7, 8, 10) Windows installations?
Without the obvious hogs like hybernation and paging files, shadow copy, saved update and installation files, what takes up so much space that it needs ~7-10 gigabytes for a fresh installation? ...
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How is OneDrive used space calculated
My (personal) OneDrive account shows that I have used 359 MB out of 5 GB, but the synced folder on my home pc only uses 67 MB. This is roughly the same size as all folder sizes on OneDrive combined. ...
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Disk space used by ImageMagick/Ghostscript
I have a 200 MB PDF file input.pdf consisting of scanned images, whose resolution I want to reduce.
Under Windows 7 the following command
convert -density 200x200 -quality 60 -compress jpeg input....
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NGEN is eating up all my disk space
For a couple months now I've woken up every couple days to find my C:\ drive out of space. After some digging I found my C:\Windows\Temp folder was full of 3MB log files -- ~40GB worth, numbering in ...
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38gb of Data Used on Hard Drive with New Installation of Windows 7 Ultimate
I just installed Windows 7 Ultimate edition on a hard drive with 74.5 GB, but as soon as I checked the computer space I found out 38 gigs were used up. Upon further investigation I found these folders ...
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How to monitor free space and automatically delete oldest files on Linux?
I have a software application that continually writes files to disk at high speed. Each file is modest in size (less than 10 MB or so), but they are created every 1-2 seconds underneath a specified ...
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Ubuntu Server shows that I am running out of disk space, but I can't figure out where it is being used
I am showing that I am running out of disk space and I am having trouble uploading, but I can't figure out where the disk space is being used. I am supposed to have 19 gigabytes, but it looks like ...
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free disk space disappeared on SSD
Today my disk got full. It was surprising, because I've been running the same automated script for a few months, with plenty of space, and no issues.
I don't understand where it's gone. du reports ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 - Session.log filling hard drive
Here's a goofy problem.
On my Ubuntu computer the session.log and session.log.old files have been continually filling up the hard drive. I've got a 80gb partition for the OS and these logs have ...
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Windows server- disk management and diskpart show different disk sizes
I have an HB proliant server with windows server 2012 R2 as OS. it has already 4Tb disk that drive c and D are on it. recently we added a bay with 8 disk all together are 8 TB. i wanted to format and ...
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How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?
I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
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100% disk full on Centos?
Situation on machine:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 14G 3.9G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 59G 0 59G 0% /dev
tmpfs 59G 932M 59G 2% /dev/shm
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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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suddenly new external harddrive not detected in windows, Ubuntu machines
I bought new external harddrive Toshiba Canvio Ready 1TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 External Portable Hard Drive (HDTP310AK3AA, Black)
and copied all data from my computer to external harddrive.
It fills about 900+...
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Is it possible to use "%of total" instead of "%of parent" in Wiztree?
Rather than knowing a file is 32% of 75% of 80% it would be more useful to plainly see what percent of the overall disk space it takes up. Is there a way to achieve this and see these percentages ...
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Empty Partition Reported as Full
I have a Windows 10 desktop with a 1 TB drive that I use for my OS partition plus one other 500 MB partition (mounted as E:) that almost exclusively has junction links to folders on my other drives (...
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"System files" on secondary drive take up 280GB
got several disks on this PC and on one, for some reason, "System files" in the "System & reserved" storage view take up 280GB without showing up anywhere in WinDirStat:
There ...
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How can I increase the size of a lubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox?
I am using VirtualBox 6 on Windows 10. I have used the Virtual Media Manager to increase the size of my lubuntu virtual machine. However, I cannot access that additional space within the virtual ...
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System drive fills up for no reason
have 128 gb of ssd, and my system drive is located there. Every time I reinstall windows I get 60 gb of free space. After a month or so it becomes 0 very quickly even though I don't install anything ...
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Windows shows 150GB less than Chkdsk
Windows is reporting 199GB free when CHKDSK reports ~350GB free. The drive in question is a 1TB SSD that was my former Windows drive. I have run disk check and checked for shadows. How can I reclaim ...
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NTFS-SSD: Testing: Write data to use whole disk Linux - overflow
I want to test the reliability of harddrives (mostly SSD) to check when they break down.
(I think this question fits best on Superuser instead of stackoverflow or server fault.)
I know there are tools ...
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Find what Recently took the disk space
My first post here, I hope I'm doing it right.
So, here's the deal: I have a D: drive that's running out of space (not system drive). It had only 1GB left so I checked what I could delete, deleted ...
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Why `du` output / subdirectory size on disk changes after creating a file in parent directory?
╼ pwd
/some/dir
╼ ls
╼ some_script.py --create centos-chroot
╼ ls
centos-chroot
╼ du --block-size=1 -s centos-chroot
6320181248
╼ fallocate -l 36613854208 largefile
╼ ls
centos-chroot largefile
╼ du --...
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Use Others Hard disk space in my system connected in a network
In my office we are having around 60 systems running with windows 10 with specs: Intel I5 processor,1tb hdd etc. in almost all the systems around 500gb diskspace is idle and no one is utilising now i ...
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LVM (seemingly) only using one device
I've inherited a machine with 2 physical drives:
a ~1tb ssd
a ~3tb spinning disk
Here're the filesystems from $ df -h:
[}
Note that /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv is almost full; it's where a ...
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Cannot find out what consumes my disk space in AWS
I use a free tier ec2 instance in amazon aws. I run a nodejs server with mongodb, and the server has a memory and cpu intensive job.
df -h shows that I consumed 18G of 20G disk.
Filesystem ...
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missing disk space on ext4
I have a case like this.
One partition 7.7GB, And I cannot where this space was used.
/# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 488M 0 488M 0% /dev
tmpfs ...
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Trouble while extending a disk partition on Windows
I have an unallocated space, so I tried to extend my C:\ drive however I couldn't do the process "extend volume" option is disabled, you can see the image below,
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Please help me understand the jump in used space in a freshly formatted disk
Let me try to explain what I am trying to understand.
I have 2 physical drives in my laptop.
The one without the OS, the D drive, shows 200 MB of used space right after formatting. (Right click -> ...