Covers questions related to file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system.
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Deleted 2 20GB zips, no space freed up [closed]
Recently deleted 2 20GB gzip files from my Ubuntu. They did not appear in the Trash, and 40GB of disk space remains used.
I searched all trash folders and they are empty. The files that were ...
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gnome-settings-daemon extensively reads/writes hard-disk
After upgrading to 11.10, after each login the computer becomes slow and the hard-disk noisy (sounds like reading/writing/defragmenting). When I "stop" the process gnome-settings-manager in the system ...
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How to display free disk space in Lubuntu/LXDE?
In Xubuntu/Xfce the xfpanel has an add-on for that (Free Space Checker).
Is there something similar for lxpanel or otherwise in LXDE/Lubuntu - or maybe a program with a similar service for all ...
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How can I free up disk space by removing files that aren't needed?
How can we free disk space by removing unwanted data on the system? How do we detect that the files are not necessary for the programs to work?
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Xubuntu how to check used and free disk space
How can I check free and used disk space on Xubuntu?
On Ubuntu, this was very easy to do, but I don't see a program that accomplishes this now with Xubuntu.
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How can I check disk usage using ssh?
We have an ssh server on Ubuntu and we want a disk usage report using ssh of whole network.Is there any utility, command, or script available to accomplish this?
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ubuntu system partition is running out of space after empty my trash, is it normal?
I have just delete 4.1 go files from my desktop and after empty the trash. And now my / directory is up now to 100% in use. I cant start anymore Ubuntu. But i have access to safemode to clean the ...
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find cluster size of in ubuntu in 11.04
I am running ubuntu 11.04 and I am wondering how to find the size of the size of the allocation unit ? Is there a command in ubuntu to find this? Also depending on the size of the allocation unit does ...
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Changing the default installation path to a newly installed hard disk
I am currently working on a dual-booted PC. I am using Windows XP and Ubuntu 10.04 Lucid Lynx released in April 2010.
The allocated partition to Ubuntu that I am making use of has almost exhausted. ...
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Confusing Disk Space Situation
My system primarily has Windows 7 on it. A while ago, I switched from VirtualBoxing into Linux to installing Linux in its own Partition. I thought I had lots of free space.
However, Ubuntu's now ...
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Allocating more disk space to Ubuntu
I used the windows installer to install Ubuntu 12.04 on my PC. By default it was installed with 17 gigs of space. I have filled up this space and want more. Is there any way to allocate more disk ...
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Deleting a large file does not free up space
I deleted a large file (6 GB) located in my home directory but the free space is not increased.
I have tried looking the file in trash folder by typing cd ~/.local/share/Trash/files but it's not ...
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/tmp shows 690 Mb full, actual size 72 K, Why?
Why is /tmp diretory on my system showing 690 Mb full, whereas du -sh /tmp shows only 72K full.
drwxrwxrwt 2 lightdm lightdm 4096 Aug 29 21:49 at-spi2
drwx------ 2 ankit ankit 4096 Aug 29 21:50 ...
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Can I change the default of “block-size” in commands?
Several commands use --block-size 1K as the default and I find myself counting numbers. Is there a way to automatically and permanently change the block-size of commands like du,ls,df to greater ...
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Great amount of diskspace is used and I hardly have any files
I've recently installed Lubuntu and copied a great amount of things to it and deleted them. The issue is that the diskspace is still taken. I've emptied the trash too. For some reason the root folder ...
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Add more disk space to partition (11.10)
Ubuntu is complaining that it's running out of space, and indeed, df yields:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/loop0 17G 15G 462M 98% /
/dev/sda2 ...
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free space on ubuntu mount drive disappeared
I came back from vacation, inserted my ubuntu flash drive into server and fired it up, only to find out that df -h reports 0 free space. 100% full 3.8GB drive.
I installed ubuntu server on flash usb ...
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disk usage statistics tools
I'm looking for a tool that gathers disk usage statistics over time and can display the data.
It will be nice to be able see the data in a table and in a graph.
I basically want the info df -h over ...
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What are relevant disk benchmark settings for a desktop system [duplicate]
NOTE: This is not a question about which tools to use to fine tune disks.
I am about to replace an HD with an SSD and also to fine tune some of the disk settings. Also, I might distribute my ...
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Resize Boot Device Volume [duplicate]
I'm Wondring how can I resize Boot Volume because it got 15GO of space and he use only 71.7MB only almost 0% of space. So I want to reduce This space and add it to principle Device "/"
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Increase of Disk space
I have chosen Drive-G which was 100GB memory Space. Nothing was present in the Drive-G. I installed Ubuntu 12.04 LTS through wubi inside the windows 7. While installing I chosen 30GB space which was ...
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btrfs: not enough free disk space, but device not fully used
I'm using btrfs for my home directory, which spans multiple devices. In total I should have around 7.3TB of space - and that's what df shows, but I ran out of space after using only 5.7TB of data:
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Weird storage problems
I am totally unable to install, update, or remove anything. I can't even auto-report bugs!
I recently ran sudo nautilus and made the entire filesystem read-writable to everyone, so I could install ...
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Disk is suddenly full, fixes itself after a few reboots
How do find what is filling up my disk?
It just suddenly is full, I get a warning saying only a few KB or MB are left when it boots up. I run disk usage analyzer it shows main volume 8.8 of 134 GB ...
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jbd2 on Ubuntu Precise & Quantal
I've just installed Ubuntu 12.04.02 64bit (and now upgraded to Quantal) on my Samsung however I noticed jbd2 keeps writing on my disk
Any idea what to do?
I've another laptop (lenovo) with Quantal ...
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Keep getting warnings about low disk space on home volume
About once every other day I receive a warning about low disk space in /home. When I open the Disk Usage Analyzer it says my largest folder /home/chris/Music occupies the most space at 72% of 26.6GB, ...
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Low Disk Warnings on Ubuntu 12.04
After I upgraded LibreOffice to include Base, I now get warnings about "low disk space".
I am using Ubuntu on a 16GB USB.
For example, when I tried to use my Audacity it couldn't save due to memory ...
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Show full disk usage after recovering files using Photorec to the home directory & deleting them as root
I selected my home directory as destination to recover some deleted files using Photorec from another partition(NTFS). During the file recovery,my file system partition ran out of space & Photorec ...
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boot running low on space
I got an error message saying "The volume "boot" has only 5.3 MB disk space remaining."
I looked through some of the answers on this site and the closes one I found referred to old linux kernels, ...
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“The volume filesystem root has only…”
I am having this problem in ubuntu 12.04, but I fin strange that when I go to /tmp it wont allow me to delete some files, with message "Operation not permitted" or "this file could not be handled ...
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VARYING SPACE REQUIREMENTS VIA WINDOWS INSTALLER [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How much space does Ubuntu take up after it’s already installed?
hi everyone i'm thinking of installing ubuntu onmy laptop which is already running Vista OS. i ...
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problem with disk quota
I have just a couple of users in partition /home, say, home/u1 and home/u2, mounted on a 2TB hard disk. Both users use up only about 10 GB of disk space. Quota is not enabled, in fact, when I run ...
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Finding and using unused disk space?
I installed Ubuntu on my 80GB hard disk. I chose "Guided - use entire disk and set up LVM". The system showed 79.7GB and I chose 39.7GB for the OS. The system is up and now I want to use remaining ...
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Shrinking the system partion after made backup of the system
I want to shrink my ubuntu partion after taken backup and restore the same after shrinking the partion inorder to use the free space.Will it create problecm to the normal working of the system,if I do ...
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Why is ext4's Journaling I/O usage so high when copying files to my RAID1?
This just barely started occurring and I feel like this is not a bug but a configuration error (hopefully). I'm on 12.04, 64-bit and have been happily stable for many months. My RAID1 is years old and ...
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What happens to the storage capacity when I uninstall Ubuntu?
I used the wubi installer for Ubuntu 12.04.
After having trouble with getting the Ubuntu to boot, I tried uninstalling it with Wubi.
From 'My Computer' (in Windows 7), I noticed the maximum ...
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Changing Disk Allocation for Ubuntu on Dual-Boot System
When I first installed Ubuntu, I had a new PC with Windows 7 installed. It was my first installation of Ubuntu so I only allocated 45% of the disk for Ubuntu. Now I find that I have been using ...
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How to boot into a root.disk file instead of a partition?
I have a special question. I would like to change my ubuntu install so that my / directory is mounted from a root.disk file instead of a raw partition on my hard disk. Does anyone know how to do this? ...
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“disk space full”
i have a 160Gb drive partitioned into root(/) approx 150gb and swap 8Gb i have little to no user data on the system as it is a new install. i have added some software to the basic system including ...
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After setting up Windows 7 in Virtual Box, I now get warning about low disk space? [closed]
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin as my primary OS, but just couldn't make the GIMP do the things I was so used to being able to do with Photoshop. So rather than going through the headaches ...
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How do I keep my Lubuntu from running out of space on a 4 GB drive?
When installing, I disable the swap partition, and it's fine (~ 600 MB free space after install), but after some time the disk fills up with I don't know what till the system fails some critical task ...
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Not enough free disk space in 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I free up disk space?
While I choose install updates in Update Manager, I get
not enough free disk space:
The upgrade needs a total of 362 MB free space on ...
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Browser hanging when copying large files
Whenever I copy or move large files between disk partitions my firefox becomes unresponsive at random times during the process. Is that normal for Ubuntu?
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Ubuntu says I don't have enough free disk pace, how to install? [duplicate]
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When I install Ubuntu it shows me that i don't have at least 4.4 GB free space.. What should I do?
When I try to install Ubuntu, Everything is fine except this: Have ...
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Deleted files not increasing available free space as reported by df -h
I am writing data munging scripts (python and bash), to munge data and import large quantities of text files into a database.
I am currently in the test phase, so I am generating several K's of files ...
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Ubuntu doesn't start, not enough disk space
On my computer I divided 50GB for Ubuntu 11.10
I decided to install game Unreal tournament 2004 deb package. After few minutes installation I have a error about "Not enough disk space". Then I abort ...
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Failed Ubuntu installation costs 50 GB
I tried installing Ubuntu 11.10 on my new laptop (HP Pavilion dv6-6b20SE). I didn't want to do a complete re-install and pre-partitioning my hard disk, so I tried shrinking my main NTFS partition ...
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How to install Ubuntu 11.04 on a Dell Mini 910? [closed]
I have a Dell Mini 910. There is no Windows on it so the laptop can't power on. I created a bootable USB with Ubuntu 11.04 and I'm trying to install it, but I have a problem. The hard drive of the ...
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Cannot Update- Insufficient Space- Extend Folder to External HDD?
I have my computer on a dual-boot linux/winXP with a partitioned hard drive for each. Recently my linux ran out of memory and cannot update. I tried sudo apt-get clean and that worked for a while but ...
