A space is a spot that is occupied or not occupied by something.
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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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How to find out how much disk space is remaining?
What is the command to find out how much disk space is being used/remaining?
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Low disk space: home/user folder occupies 94GB
I am low on disk space and when I check the Disk Usage analyzer (using gksudo baobab) it indicates that my home/teddy folder is using 94GB, but when I browse through its contents I can only account ...
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Thunderbird 16.0.1 filling disk space
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 with Thunderbird 16.0.1 and Kernel 3.6.0-030600rc4-generic. I used Thunderbird for quite a while and never had any problems with it. But now it seems to fill up my disk space very ...
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Why is `df -h` not showing the whole disk space?
I recently formatted my hdd to increase the partition size for Ubuntu. Despite the actual 170 GB free space (sda5), Ubuntu shows only 27 GB when prompted via properties. Here is my df-h output:
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Not enough space on hard drive for tf2
I'm fairly new to Linux and Ubuntu, and I recently wanted to install TF2 on Ubuntu. When I tried to install it through Steam it said TF2 was about 11GB and I there was only 2GB available so I couldn't ...
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How much space does Ubuntu take up after it's already installed?
I know how much space is required to install it, but how much space does it take up on the disk? Thanks for any answers!!!
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1answer
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If I fill my harddrive, why can't I log in?
I was stupid, I kept ignoring the warnings that my harddrive space was running low and left a download running in the background. When I logged out, I wasn't taken back to the login screen (LightDM), ...
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How do I reduce the size of mlocate database?
I'm out of space on /var
25G 25G 0 100% /var
It looks like mlocate.db is the problem:
# find . -printf '%s %p\n' | sort -nr | head
13140140032 ./lib/mlocate/mlocate.db.cgLMAM
12409839616 ...
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How can I tell the Ubuntu installer to use another partition?
When I'm getting here:
The installer won't let me install because it doesn't determine the D: partition. It complains that there is not enough space on the C: partition.
How can I tell the ...
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1answer
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Fixing Two key events on single key press by xmodmap
I'm using a Dell Latitude D620. Whenever I press the space key, the down arrow key is also triggered to perform its action. Here is the log:
KeyPress event, serial 30, synthetic NO, window 0x3200001,
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Ubuntu: Can I delete /var/log files due to low root space
Just had the message:
Low disk space.. 2 GB left
Judging by a posted message on ubuntu.org forums, I found that I have a .log file in /var/log at 22 GB in size!! My root is an 82 GB partion and ...
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1answer
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I can't install update because I need more space
I recently installed Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS. After I tried to make the very first update in a couple of days, I encountered a problem which is not new, but I think in my case it is a bit ...
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1answer
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Claiming the provisioned storage
I created a ubuntu server vm with 64GB provisioned storage. I remember that I specified 30GB to be used for the vm. When I do df -h, I get
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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1answer
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How to escape spaces in pwd path when creating a Boost build script?
I want to compile Boost with some specific options (eg: using zlib from its latest source)
So I try next bash code like:
WD=`pwd`
#//...
cd $BOOST_ROOT_DIR
echo_run ./bootstrap.sh
#// problem with ...
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0answers
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I have lost a 30GB Folder
i was using a video player running a movie. the player (movie player that is coming by default on ubuntu) was freezing and the file and others files in the same folder (30 GB ) was missing. still ...
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How to disable low disk space notification? (Gnome 3, Ubuntu 12.04)
I've got an SSD drive for root and /home, and a larger HDD for storage. The storage disk is almost full, and there's a low disk space warning on startup. The warning doesn't have any "don't show ...
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Whats consuming HDD Space
I have single partition of 92GB in which I installed Ubuntu 12.04. And for some Unknown reason a message pop ups saying that I only have 1GB of HDD space left.
I ran command sudo du -hscx * on / and ...
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1answer
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How can I overwrite Windows 7 with Ubuntu?
Windows 7 runs unreasonably slow, so I decided to install Ubuntu instead.
I clicked Install but it says that I do not have at least 4. 4GB of disk space. But my hard disk's capacity is is 320 GB.
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1answer
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Can I use a USB drive to extend the hard drive space?
I need more space on my hard drive and I have an unused 8gb USB stick.
How can I use that as an extra hard drive?
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1answer
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How to fully utilize the available hard drive space for the home directory
I have a two hard drives, 465GB each. I have windows on one, and wish to install Ubuntu on the other through Wubi. Also, I have 16 GB RAM.
When I installed Ubuntu, the acutal space in the home ...
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1answer
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Why is my partition claiming to be out of space?
My file system claims to only have 4.5 GB left. While my OS (a folder with in file system) still has 75.2 GB left. I put something near 130 GB on my Ubuntu partition, it should have enough space.
I ...
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Not enough space left in the hard drive. How to proceed? [closed]
Where do I begin... I can hardly do anything on Ubuntu 12.04. I am very close to removing and returning to Windows. First I could not load it because the graphics appeared to be running low but ...
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1answer
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No space left on device while I still have 640GB of free space
I was copying some huge files from a remote disk to my computer and got a message
No space left on device
I installed my Ubuntu 12.04 in my 640GB HDD and thought that Ubuntu was utilizing all of ...
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1answer
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extra space before brackets [closed]
When I type something anywhere (bash, eclipse, this field) and open a bracket, Ubuntu adds a space before it. So instead of: code() I get code ().
This creeps me out. How can I stop it doing that?
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How do I create a new logical partition from unallocated space?
I bought a new hard drive and installed Windows followed by Ubuntu 11.04 on it. In the screenshot below, Windows System, C:, swap are Primary partitions. I then put / and /home in an extended ...
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/var/log/account/pacct is getting too big, where is ckpacct (to cicle/gzip it)?
I got 2 big files at, /var/log/account, of 350MB each..., my root is only 10GB...
I read there could have ckpacct to cycle and gzip it, but I cant find it, also no alternative command?
EDIT: I found ...
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LVM mounted ubuntu 12.04. No space left on device
I have a logical volume that is 2.44 TB in size which is mounted. I use it to store movies and TV shows for sharing on the home network. However, all of a sudden the system now gives the error: No ...
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2answers
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System in low graphics, deleted linux, grub rescue, can't access windows
So I'm pretty new to Ubuntu but I managed to install it with no big problems on both my desktop and netbook. When I installed it on my brother's netbook everything went horribly wrong and now I fear ...
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How do you get install alonside Ubuntu option during the installation? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
No option to install alongside Windows 7
During the graphical installation I get only two options in the allocate disk space page,
i) erase disk and install Ubuntu ii) ...
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1answer
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How to add more space to my ubuntu 10.04 installation [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make Ubuntu use the entire partition?
I installed Ubuntu 10.04 on my 64 bit machine using Wubi.Both windows and Ubuntu are installed on the C drive. I have the D ...
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how to I add more space to ubuntu? I dont have admin in windows 7 but i do in ubuntu [closed]
I just want more room for games and whatnot. Please help. I'm really stuck, because i don't understand partitioning or anything. Please make it noob friendly. ubuntu 11.10. Its a school pc and they ...
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1answer
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View TOTAL Disk Space Taken by ALL Installed Packages
Is there a way to view a 'system size'? I want to know how large I should make partitions if I separate my /home from the / (root) partition, but I don't know how much space Ubuntu + every installed ...
0
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1answer
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Monodevelop, “no such file or directory” when trying to run a program
I wanted to try to write a C++ program in "Monodevelop" and i use Ubuntu 12.10 as a OS.
But when i finish writing my program (any program) and want to actually run my program, i get this error:
...
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3answers
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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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1answer
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“System is running in low-graphics mode”, /dev/sdax partition full. How to delete content?
I'm aware of the this question and these are similar issues:
How to fix "The system is running in low-graphics mode" error?
But I couldn't figure it out entirely.
What I did before the ...
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1answer
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Add more disk space to Ubuntu from my Windowns 7 major disk and shrink from other drivers
Good Evening Everyone
First I wanted to give Ubuntu LTS 12.04 a shot with starting with a 10 GB and left around 10 GB unused separated in all my windows disk drivers, after installing and using I ...
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1answer
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Show/hide the top panel with a keybind?
I'm using a computer with very little screen space available. I'd like to be able to hide the top panel on a keypress while I work so I can grab a little extra room for the window I'm using. Is there ...
0
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1answer
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Problem with hard drive space
I have a problem, my .private is using the 100% of my free hard drive space, i have no idea of how to solve this...
Why is file is using every bit on my hd, how can i fix it?
This is the menssage of ...
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Does folder and directories has their own size?
I got a messege today that I have little free space left on my hard drive.
I opened the utility/program which shows me how the hard drive usage, and I saw my "Downloads" folder is 10.4 GB.
picture:
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1answer
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Add space to the previously assigned ubuntu
When I installed Ubuntu with Windows XP I put in a partition of 12 GB and if the installation asked me to assign a space not because I put half (6 GB) and now I want to raise it and have read by HAI ...
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1answer
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ubuntu server taking up 24gb is normal?
I installed ubuntu server x86 12.*
then I used the command supplied at the community wiki to install xubuntu's GUI (cuz I'm a newb)
sudo apt-get install xubuntu-desktop
Then installed:
Xampp ...
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0answers
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Spacebar no longer works, need to reassign space to some other key
The spacebar on my Toshiba Satellite laptop no longer works. I have confirmed this with all applications, Windows Vista OS, and the bootup menus - it is a hardware mechanical issue.
In Windows, I ...
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0answers
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I installed Ubuntu 12.04 using Wubi installer. and I thing storage is limited [duplicate]
When I install updates it says sometimes no enough space clear cache and I did that.
The thing is, I have Ubuntu installed on a partition with 20 GB free the whole partition is 20 GB. And I guess ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 says little space left
I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 100 gb partition, and it says I only have 127 megabytes remaining. When i ran df -h, this is what came up:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
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1answer
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How do i get more hard drive space?
I'm dual booting Ubuntu 12.10 with Windows 7 & I installed Ubuntu 12.10 on a 100gig partition but the biggest HD space option when I installed Ubuntu was only 30gig. How can I allocate more space ...
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0answers
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Ubuntu 12.04 icons space changes
I have customized Ubuntu by installing gnome-classic. Everything is correct almost one little thing. It is difficult to write, but simple to show:
The desktop after start looks like that:
And I ...
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1answer
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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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0answers
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My Ubuntu has less disk space than it should
I'm trying to install Steam in Ubuntu, after a nights worth of errors, re installing, and much anger, however after Ubuntu didn't immediately crashed, and I finally got steam working, I went to ...
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Assign more tmp space for Libre Office
I encountered the error "Resource exhausted. No more space on device." while saving a huge spreadsheet (Libre Office Calc 3.5). Is there a relation to the tmp space assigned for operations in Libre ...
