Questions tagged [disk-usage]

Covers questions related to file space usage—space used under a particular directory or files on a file system.

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Ubuntu 20.4 .cache tracker is taking my space

I have 200 gb of space in my portion and the .cache tracker meta.db-wal took 140gb of that space and I don’t know how to clear it. I saw that you can disable the tracker but without actually informing ...
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apt-xapian-index, how to limit its disk usage or safely move it away?

My /var/cache/apt-xapian-index has 4.5GB. I like the synaptic search functionality a lot, but that price is too much for my small SSD... I was thinking what I can do about it, to keep it available ...
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How to move disk space from /home to / (root)

Can somebody help me move 1.7T of disk space from /home to /. The disk is on a dedicated server accessed remotely. df command output: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on ...
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Disk /dev/root full, but cannot identify the reason

I need some help to fix some disk space issue. Actually I'm using a private vps cloud server with 50Gb of disk space. When I run df -h, I get : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/...
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A weird 16TB file in my SSD

Somehow, a file has appeared on my SSD which is larger than the SSD itself. The file is 16 TB in size and is located on my /home partition which is only 220 GB. The path is (if that's relevant) ~/....
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Log disks spin up and spin down

I have a file / media server running on Ubuntu 18.04. It has 1 SSD on which Ubuntu is installed and 4 HDD's for various files. I found some information on how to log the disks activities and that ...
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Help figuring out what's taking up disk space

I've tried a number of different ways of tracking down what's using the space on my SSD drive. I apologize in advance as I don't totally understand Linux and filesystems. I have three drives. The SSD ...
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Free space not reclaimed after deleting large disk image from ext4 partition

I have a 1TB backup disk with an ext4 partition on it where I keep disk images of my two disks - one is 500GB/466GiB (my main disk) and the other is 400GiB (data partition from my second disk). I use ...
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Deja Dup Backup: Limit Drive Space Usage and Force Full Backups Only

Good day, I have configured Deja Dup to backup my home folder and a couple other locations to a folder on a spare drive of mine, /media/backupDrive/myBackups. I have made some minor changes to GnuPG, ...
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Should I use MB or MiB to calculate space for the system?

I'm looking to do a fresh install of Linux on my computer with a dual boot to windows. My problem is as follows I had installed Linux before on my PC with dual boot and always followed the same ...
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PSI Full IO / PSI some IO meaning in htop

In the above screenshot, i examine a large white bar in the CPU Avg chart. Additional, i see PSI full IO/PSI some IO quite large. I assume the white bar is IO wait of some sort. What exactly does PSI ...
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How to remove unused versions of Wine in snap

I'm trying to clear memory on my hard drive, and I found multiple wine installations under snap folder, which total to more than 10Gb, 10% of hard drive space. > snap list wine-platform-3-stable ...
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Each day when the logs turn over, the system fails to find space even though there is plenty on the device; potential error with init.d script

I'm still at a loss for this specific error and any help or pushing in the right direction would be much, much appreciated. TL;DR: Many, many instances of an init.d spawned script seem to be running, ...
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Not enough space in boot partision for update

I have a separate partision for /boot. It has the standard size of a normal Ubuntu installation (700+ MB). There are only the latest two kernel versions installed but 50%+ of the space is taken and I ...
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ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv partition full for no apparent reason?

I am using ubuntu server on a few machines but it seems 2 of them are afflicted with this issue while the others are totally normal. Both machines are very barebones, outside of the ubuntu server OS ...
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No space left on device, even though there is

similar questions on this site did not have a solution for me. I'm developing a web app with symfony, and tried to start a local server, which resulted in a warning and didn't start anything che6yp@...
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Change kio cache directory

I was wondering if there's a way to change the location of the cache directory used by kio. Currently when I go through my GoPro videos, they cache to ~/.cache/kioexec/krun/ which is on my SSD. ...
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Hard disk almost full

I installed Ubuntu a while ago on my computer and despite having done some preliminary researches I am encountering a hard disk space problem. Ultimately I think I understood that partitioning my hard ...
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SNMP - Disk Free - Incorrect Values

just updated Ubuntu 18.04.03 LTS and now SNMP Disk Free values are coming back incorrect. Server still responds to SNMP requests, but the values are all 0. Is this a bug in an update?
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Can't clear disk space

Like the title says, the disk space in my "/" partition is at 97% and that's after deleting GBs worth of files. I'm running Ubuntu 18.04.2 LTS. After running df -Th, I get the following output: ...
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LVM root 100% usage

I've been going round in circles trying to find a fix to this issue, without having to use liveCD and shutting down the server (Ubuntu Server 16.04 LTS). I can no longer update Ubuntu due to a lack of ...
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Log file eating whole space in UBUNTU 18.04

I have dual boot Ubuntu 18.04 LTS with windows 10, installation was all fine and i have allocated 90 GB for Ubuntu, Ubuntu is taking around 7 8 GB and the rest space is free, but my problem is that as ...
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How to increase space allocated to inode in XFS filesystem

We are facing a problem with a ceph osd node which uses an XFS file system. The mount has become non-writeable. It gives the following error: root@fab-prod-ceph-h3:/var/lib/ceph/osd/ceph-6# touch ...
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Back-in-time disk usage

I am using Back-in-time with encryption on a remote server (ext4 FS). I am aware that for an unencrypted backup, BiT uses hard links. Thus in nautilus, the folder size appears to be huge. The actual ...
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.Private is 14x time bigger than /home -> disk almost full

I'm having an issue with my encrypted home folder: I enabled /home/theUser encryption when creating theUser. I don't have a proper /home/theUser/.Private directory (it's a link as shown by Luís de ...
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Unable to copy files from local system to local server

When I am trying copy data onto a local server in our college LAN from my local system, I'm getting this error No space left on device However, I am able to copy onto my colleague's system who ...
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Too little root space

I'm completly confused. Per accident more or less I gave my PC 100 GB for root. And now Ubuntu tells me I am out of space, 0 byte left. I cleared the trash to get a little bit to work with (5GB), ...
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What are consequences of reducing storage allocation to root user in ext4 partition?

By default ext2, ext3 and ext4 reserve 5% of all space for the root user and to prevent fragmentation which can be reduced using the following command: sudo tune2fs -m 1 /dev/sdb This will reduce ...
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/run mount keeps filling up

i have some weird issue where the /run mount keeps filling up. Eventually it will reach 100% and stuff starts to malfunction, up untill i reboot. root@nasnvt:/run# df -h Filesystem Size ...
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Where is system Disk info stored

I have written a C program to display basic system info. It does this by parsing /etc/network/interfaces and /proc/meminfo with fgets and associated logic. These give me the network info and memory/...
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steam error : do not have enough disk space available to run this game please free up some disk space and try again

I have installed steam but a message appears Steam Error : "You do not have enough disk space available to run this game. Please free up some disk space and try again" whereas my hard drive its ...
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How to monitor disk quota in modern way? Status in widget, menu, status bar?

I would like to have constant remainder / status update of remaining disk space within quota set for particular user. I have setting the quotas figured out, just not the monitoring part. My Ubuntu ...
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Possible problems when 0 bytes remaining

over the past few months I have been getting that "XYZ MB remaining, ... Examine/Ignore" popup screen. Since this is an old ubuntu 10.04 on a small partition, it never troubled me much - after all, ...
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How to find out which programs are taking up alot of memory?

I've been getting messages that I have exceeded my quota limits. I am new to Linux and am not sure what to do. With windows, I could easily just go to Control panel, add/remove programs, and uninstall ...
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Low free disc space please help

I received a warning of limited space so I deleted a bunch of videos and removed old programs i don't use any more. Then I downloaded bleach bit and ran that but that a warning pops up saying I have ...
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No disk space confusion

I am trying to install kde on ubuntu server, when i run apt-get install kubuntu-desktop the cp command says I have no space: Complete output of the above command: here Other info: The os runs on an ...
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Ubuntu 13.10 with encryption installed manually won't load on SSD

I want to install Ubuntu 13.10 on my new SSD drive in laptop. I have no other OS and want to use whole disk for Ubuntu installation. However, I've read that it's best to leave some unallocated space ...
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Extreme problems - something is eating up all disk space constantly

I have so much trouble with disk space, it's crazy. My HDD constantly gets full even though I have 2 TB. I figured out fairly quickly that the file .xsession-errors was huge and eating up a big part ...
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Anything sync daemon for Ubuntu?

Is there a utility providing similar functionality to Anything sync daemon for 64bit Ubuntu? Preferably in the repository or with a PPA. In particular, I'd like to stop Firefox from constantly ...
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Why does the installer say I don't have enough drive space on a new drive?

I have a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. I am trying to install it on a new (bare) hard drive and can't get past the first screen (the one that says "For best results, please ensure that this computer: ...
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Permissions do not allow pasting files in this directory

I'm using Tower PC with 500GB SSD & 1 TB HDD, installed Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on the SSD, The 1TB HDD I'm not able to use, while copy paste a file from SSD to HDD it says "Permissions do not allow ...
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Why does it display "Filesystem root" almost full when I have almost 35GB worth of free space?

I tried unzipping a 37MB RAR file, but system says root is full. I used sudo baobab / to check, and it shows that / takes up 14.1GB. It acknowledges the fact that the free space exists, but it still ...
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Why does "nautilus"(Gnome FIles) gives me so smaller size of directory, compared with "du"?

I have uncompressed a folder and if I right click in the folder and click properties, I get from nautilus (Gnome Files) Gnome Files output: but instead if I do: $ du -sh * 292M branches 236M ...
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Computer doesn't start

Since this morning my other desktop computer doesn't start anymore. It just shows what's on the screen photo. My husband started an update, but it couldn't finish because there wasn't enough space on ...
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Incorrect Disk Usage Reporting on Ubuntu 22.04 Server clean install

In an ordinary scenario , full disks space means actually full disk space with a matter of hidden/small large files somewhere. just like this form states RecoverLostDiskSpace I know my disk uses ...
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df -h shows 2TB external HDD is almost full but the output for 'du' does not add up

The system that I am using has 18.04 (no dual boot). I have a 2TB Seagate external hard drive which I use for taking the backup of my Ph.D. data. I use rsync -rtvhP to take backups. Recently during ...
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Errno28: No space left on device

I have an Ubuntu server that stopped working this morning. I logged in and found out that it was out of disk space. Results of lsblk : Free space left: I can see that the root partition is 100% ...
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root space still low after I mounted a 500G disk to /data and moved files in

I'm using a Cloud server: Architecture: x86_64 NAME="Ubuntu" VERSION="20.04.4 LTS (Focal Fossa)" In the beginning, I only had one 40G disk, which mounted on /, as my application ...
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Too many kde-frameworks-5-qt-x-y-z-core20 folders in /snap directory

On my Ubuntu machine, I have KDE and Gnome, right now I only use the latter. My /snap directory contains a number of packages with names like kde-frameworks-5-qt-x-y-z-core20, each over 1 GB. There is ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 constantly runs out of disk space

I have recently moved over again, from Win 10 to Ubuntu 20.04 on my Dell Precision, mainly for software development. My total disk SSD memory is 256GB. Bad choice and being a work laptop I am stuck ...
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