Covers questions related to file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system.
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disk space lacking
hi my ubuntu partition was working on 50gb . however even-though i had not used much of the memory i was still getting messages saying the disk space is low. i increased the partition but still ...
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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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How do I make my 305 GB drive my default drive? [duplicate]
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I let it run from 10 GB. Now I have run out of space by using 10 GB of data, but I have another 305 on my default hard drive. How do I make all that data go onto that ...
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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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How can I limit disk access bandwidth for a Virtual Machine guest?
I have a Virtualbox on my Ubuntu (host) that serves few Windows guest OS.
Sometimes the running Windows virtual machine starts massive access to the disk which blocks me in my host environment. I ...
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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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Baobab: disable graphical respresentation on the right?
in the disk space analyzer Baobab, the graphical representation on the right part occupies very much space.
How can I disable it?
Thanks.
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How do I find the amount of free space on my hard drive?
Is there a way to quickly check the amount of free / used disk space in Ubuntu?
I would assume you could right click on 'file system' in the file browser and choose 'properties' or something but ...
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in Ubuntu, why “df” and “du” commands shows different disk usage?
i cannot access ubuntu system on my pc,
the error message: "the system is running in low graphics mode"
and i tried some commands i searched from internet.
i found out a problems seems there is ...
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How do I resize my /boot partition?
/boot has become 100% full somehow.
df -k
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 191078052 31758960 149612804 18% /
udev ...
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shrink the size of tmpfs folders
After checking my disk space in Xubuntu, I noticed I have files holding unnecessary disk space and not coming close to using it. Is there a way to limit the space it is holding?
I have marked the ...
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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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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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How do I free up more space in /boot?
My /boot partition is nearly full and I get a warning every time I reboot my system. I already deleted old kernel packages (linux-headers...), actually I did that to install a newer kernel version ...
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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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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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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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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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What do I do when my root filesystem is full?
My / folder is reading as full and I can't update software or do anything.
Not sure what I'm doing wrong here.
$ df -h
Results:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 ...
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Why doesn't deleting files increase available space?
Recently I got a message about "0 bytes free" on a certain partition.
So I looked and, sure enough:
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 65190604 ...
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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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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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df shows all space taken, but du doesn't add up
I'm having a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is the second time I've encountered this problem in the last 3 weeks.
The first time is described in this closed question on StackOverflow.
The TL;DR ...
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Disk Usage Very Strange
Just today, my Ubuntu 11.04 started prompting me that my HDD is full ... I know I am filling up my HDD fast, but its the storage partition I expect to be filling up not my 60+GB OS Partition. So I did ...
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Does updating the system consume extra space?
I wonder if updating my system as suggested by the update manager consumes extra space?
Because even after installing all software I would like to use, I had about 10 GB free space. Now, without my ...
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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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Why do df and du show different output?
When I execute the command df -h /tmp it says disk utilization is 100%, but when it try du -sh /tmp it says disk utilization is 2%.
I want to know why these commands shows different output, how these ...
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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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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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disc usage and file system
How can the root directory be at 100 percent disc usage while its subdirectories not be? Is space allocated on a per directory basis? In the below example, it shows that the root is 100 percent used. ...
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VirtualBox drive does not expand automatically
I have a strange problem with my VDI based drive in VirtualBox, which is that the drive does not expand and this has for some reason also resulted in my x not being able to load.
df -H
Filesystem ...
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Disk Space not detected
I was using Windows7 system. To install Ubuntu I created partition of 100GB. Downloaded Ubuntu installer for windows and installed Ubuntu. The system is working perfectly fine but it is showing disk ...
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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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df -h - Used space + Avail Free space is less than the Total size of /home
As the output of df -h shows here, something is eating up 5GB of free space. So, it's not available to use.
I'm also noticing sometimes that the hard disk gets filled up to 100% sometimes. So, I had ...
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Can't upgrade due to low disk space on /boot
i try to do do-release-upgrade
but then i get
Not enough free disk space
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 25.7 M free
space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an ...
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What's a command line way to find large files/directories to remove and free up space?
Looking for a series of commands that will show me the largest files on a drive.
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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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mysql not starting
I have a server running on rackspace.com, it been running for about a year (collecting data for a project) and no problems. Now it seems mysql froze (could not connect either through ssh command line, ...
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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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My hard disk suddenly full
I am a Ubuntu beginner and I started to use Ubuntu 12.10 beta 2 last week.
I found that my hard disk is full. It seems the disk does not mounted correctly. However, I have tried a lot of codes but ...
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Server logs are filling my hard disk, how do I fix this?
I have a Linux server ( ubuntu 12.4 ) which serve my web application (20 MB) on apache httpd. a few days ago I upgrade it to 12.10, then copied one folder (30 GB) to www folder. suddenly the server ...
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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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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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Is the Disk Image Installation Efficient Enough?
I was just wondering, is it efficient to have the entire Ubuntu file system on a Windows file.
Currently I am using the option to directly boot from Ubuntu, as opposed to running it as an application ...
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How can I list all files and folders beyond a specified size limit?
In a partition I have several files and folders, and I can list all those file sizes with du like this:
du -h
But how can I list all the files which are beyond a specific disk space size like 5MB?
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Disk Space Full
Setting up Ubuntu 10.04 server, the / disk space shows full under df, however the du does not show any of the space used. This has several mounts to Gluster FS'.
I have tried a forced FSCK and to ...
