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Deleting files does not free up the space
I am getting No space left on device error when I run git pull.
This is output of my df command:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 7.8G 0 7.8G 0% /dev
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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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Parted shows 2TB partition, but df says it's 98GB
I ran out of space on my root partition, df outputs:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 3.1G 2.0M 3.1G 1% /run
/dev/mapper/...
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Lost Memory (88 of 92 GB used but still shows 100% Usage) [duplicate]
I restarted my Ubuntu Laptop after long time and now I can't start Graphical User Interface anymore.
To solve this problem I tried to repair the packages from the recovery system, which said that ...
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Different partition sizes (lsblk and df)
I've been struggling to comprehend the discrepancy found in two outputs - lsblk and df -h. Searching among other similar questions didn't yield any good result.
lsblk:
sdb 8:16 0 10G 0 disk ...
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du, df showing inconsistent hard drive usage
Ubuntu 20.04
1T built-in drive
5T Seagate Basic external USB drive
Yesterday I moved a very large postgres database to an external USB drive, and then deleted the database directory from the main hard ...
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df reports negative used storage on Ubuntu server
I am running Ubuntu server on a machine with multiple hard drives and partitions. Recently, I split the system partition into two, sda2 and sda3. sda2 contains the system files, sda3 is mapped using ...
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Check if a "string" is an existing device name and not a partition name
For example if I have an existing device variable /dev/sda, I want to verify that it is not the name of a partition but of the entire disk.
I have tried this:
[[ $(df --output=source "$var" ...
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Ubuntu 20.04.3 taking up too much space?
I am new to linux OS and so my apologies if this is disjointed or a stupid/basic question. I am running into an issue where I had allocated about 50gb for this installation of ubuntu (20.04.3) (...
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Some space seems to be lost on an ext4 drive on Ubuntu 20.04
Today I "found" a HDD in one of my systems that I completely forgot I had. So I wanted to look inside and see what was in there. I logged in via ssh from another computer (may be important ...
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df hanging: Buffer I/O error on dev sdh1, logical block 754166359, async page read
After a Ubuntu 20.04 machine has been running for some time, and I tried to run df, it simply just hangs there.
dmesg shows tons of the same error message:
[118924.226495] Buffer I/O error on dev sdh1,...
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Free swap file space contained on root partition without rebooting to free space checked by df
I have created a temporary Swap file (/var/cache/swap/myswap) of 500GB on a Ubuntu worstation at work wiht 1TB RAM. This swapfile is on a BTRFS filesystem.
I don't need anymore of this swapfile now ...
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Keep running out of space, where have my harddrive space gone?
I'm kind of a Linux noob and have been for almost 15 years, but I am trying to keep it active and learn more.
I have a Intel NUC with 120-ish NVMe SSD storage which I'm using for a home server. It has ...
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Why is my filesystem size larger than the partition size. (df vs fdisk)
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I get that fdisk lists partition sizes, and df lists filesystem sizes, and that filesystem may use a portion of the partition and disagree on the size, but why would df list filesystem sizes ...
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what is the meaning of the "root file system full: empty trash" message?
there should be plenty of space:
nicholas@mordor:~$
nicholas@mordor:~$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 1.6G 2.6M 1.6G 1% /run
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df, du, xfs_quota shows three different disk usage on xfs partition
I have an Ubuntu 18.04 server which is used by a backup software as a storage. The backup software saves the data to a xfs partition (/backup) which is on RAID5. The root filesystem is ext4.
When I ...
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Why do "Properties" and df command return different used disk space?
So I just formatted two SSDs to EXT4 and when I right-click and select Properties in file manager, I get a window that says 50 GB (!) of disk space is already used on the 1 TB disk and 100 GB (!!) is ...
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understanding df -h output for use with dd
What do the different sda devices represent in this df -h output?
Aren't /var /usr /opt all apart of / (the root directory)? Does this mean those directories are partitioned differently?
-bash-3.2$ df ...
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Missing df command on Ubuntu 20.04
I tried to run TimeShift but got an error saying:
Commands listed below are not available on this system: *df
I tried to install the df command using sudo apt install coreutils and got a message ...
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Discrepancy between df and du
I'm tracking down disk usage, and I am getting different results from df and du.
When I installed Ubuntu, I ticked the box to encrypt my home directory, so my df -h outputs the following mounts (among ...
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Recovering deleted files with rm -rf [duplicate]
I accidentally deleted a directory with
rm -rf /media/directory
When using
ls -lh /media
the space appears to be free, but when I use df or open the file manager nautilus or pantheon, it shows that ...
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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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df -h displays /cow as one of the devices what does this mean?
In addition to the other storage devices on my laptop, running df -h displays /cow as one of the devices. What does this mean?
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Understanding the Use% column of the df command output
Below is an output of df command
# df /boot
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 122835 26732 89550 23% /boot
It seems that
Used = 1K-blocks - ...
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Understanding the df command output
Below is an output of df command
# df /boot
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 122835 26732 89550 23% /boot
I cannot figure out how the "...
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Difference between gparted and df hard drive sizes
In df -h output I can see:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 234G 60M 222G 1% /...
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How much free space do I really have on my drive (ext4 and ntfs)?
I keep backups at two, 1.5 GB external hard drives which were both, up until recently, formatted to ntfs. The two hold identical copies of my files and folders.
Recently I decided to change to ext4, ...
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Is the size of loopback devices considered for calculating total disk space
I am in a dilemma and want to confirm whether the size of loopback devices is considered while calculation disk size using df -h command.
Here is the output of my df -h command.
Filesystem ...
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Prevent du command report inflated info about /snap directories
I have an Ubuntu 20.04 server installed on a single 8GB drive. The default installation has some "snap"s installed also. So, there are some "squashfs" file systems also reported by the df command:
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`df` command throws error on /run/user/1000/doc/ folder
When reviewing my daily logwatch report, I noticed a new df error this morning. I noticed the unusual error at the top of the df listing.
$ df (when run manually from my own account)
df: /run/user/...
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There is no space left on the device
sudo df -h
udev 982M 0 982M 0% /dev
tmpfs 200M 5.3M 195M 3% /run
/dev/vda2 40G 5.2G 33G 14% /
tmpfs 1000M 0 1000M 0% /dev/shm
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Why does df -h show different information then fdisk -l
I am trying to understand the difference between the output of fdisk -l and df -h. As I understand, fdisk shows the partition size, and df shows the size of the filesystem.
My problem is that I have ...
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What is difference between ls -lh and du -sh?
$ ls -lh file1.tar
-rw-r--r-- 1 wnice wnice 40K Aug 6 20:41 file1.tar
$ du -sh file1.tar
80K file1.tar
Why is it showing different sizes of same file? Please help me understand
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Which folders are in /dev/sde3?
How to see which folders are in /dev/sde3 ?
df -h
/dev/sde3 39G 32G 4.8G 87% /
Doing:
cd /
sudo du -d 1 -h | sort -hr
Also shows me folders like:
/dev/sde4 ...
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What is "udev" and "tmpfs"
I run the command df -h and it showed that udev has a size of 471M and the other 5 tmpfs have an estimated size of 1.1G. What should I do to them?
user964536
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Disk usage analyzer report different free space than terminal
I got an error that I'm running out of disk space while syncing dropbox, so I had to delete some files. The strange thing is that the "disk usage analyzer" reported that I had about 15GB free space.
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Missing df --direct option?
during configuration (after install) of Oracle XE 18c on my 16.04, I noticed this message generated by the shell script:
/bin/df: unrecognized option '--direct'
'Try '/bin/df --help' for more ...
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Not enough space on parition mounted at / [duplicate]
I'm trying to install cuda toolkit:
sudo sh cuda_10.0.130_410.48_linux.run --silent --toolkit --toolkitpath=/usr/local/cuda-10.0
Not enough space on parition mounted at /.
Need 3391705088 bytes.
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Use df on LUKS encrypted device
I am using LUKS for disk encryption for a Ubuntu 18.04 system. I'd like to find out how much free space is still available on my hard drive. gparted prints the following:
As you can see the entire ...
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How to speed-up boot by disabling few dev-loox.device? [duplicate]
When I checked my system's boot logs, I noticed that each of the dev-loopx.device takes a good 3-5 seconds to boot, and I have a total 20 such loopx devices lines up during my boot, which ultimately ...
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Failed to boot : create volatile files and directories, enable support for additional executables binary formats and LSB: AppArmor initialization
I get these errors whenever I boot the machine:
[failed] Failed to start Create Volatile Files and Directories.
[failed] Failed to start Enable support for additional executable binary formats.
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Available + used size only 19% of total partition size
I have a VPS with Ubuntu on OpenVZ.
I noticed a day ago that the output of the df -h command returns strange values.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 54G 1.5G 8.8G ...
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Used and available df values don't add up to the correct size [duplicate]
I just did a df to check the disk usage on a new 16.04 installation and noticed the following result. The used and available on /dev/sda2 don't add up to the partition size. Even if I do 836120968-...
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nvme SSD df -h reports incorrect disk usage
I helped myself with this shiny new Samsung 960 EVO 250GB, and it is super fast, I am very happy with it.
Now my disk is full, but df -h reports 33% used space...
I really don't know where to start....
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Unable to free diskspace by removing files and not restarting the computer (hibernation possible)
I have a similar problem to the one mentioned here: Unable to free up space in df but I can not reboot (I have important data in the memory).
The output of df -h / is:
Filesystem Size Used ...
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df generates duplicate entries
df command generates duplicate entries, like so:
mr@ubx:~$ df /*
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-root 213G 65G 137G 33% /
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SSD total capacity <> free space + used space
I got a new 500GB SSD and formatted it with ext4+LUKS using the Disks utility in Ubuntu 16.04.
Enter disk with Nautilus, right-click and Properties. Total capacity is 492 GB, free space is 467 GB, ...
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How can I check all used space on filesystem in linux?
I've already tried du-ch , df -h and df -h --total but it all result to their specific size of folder. Need to know how can I get the total used space in human readable form. Hoping for your help. ...
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No space left on device - Size=105G, Used=55G, Avail=0
My root filesystem claims I have no space left on device. I've done some searching and can't find anyone with the problem I'm having.
If you look at / you can see that the partition is 105G, used is ...
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df reports missing space? [duplicate]
This is part of df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md1 222G 5.5G 205G 3% /
222 - 5.5 = 205?
I also observe this in another physical machine
/dev/sda1 108G ...
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