Questions tagged [df]
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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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how can a full LVM setup has a slash fulled while all usr var etc partitions are separated ? (nearly)
Here's a strange thing to get a "/" partition fulled with a very new and quite minimal installation. (debian but very similar to ubuntu of course)
Understand minimal here as a for usual ...
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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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Block device management
I searched for this in the forums, and did not find anything that could help me, if this was already discussed please forgive me.
So I have 2 problems/questions:
I recently installed unbuntu server ...
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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
tmpfs ...
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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?
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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% /
/dev/sda2 ...
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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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Duplicity restore fails, claiming “disk full”, even if there is still much room
I'm restoring a big file (~80GB, a virtual machine disk image).
Although I start the restore operation with >145GB disk space, as reported by df , the restore aborts with a message that my disk has ...
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How to mount a USB so that it appear in df output?
When a USB /dev/sdb1 is mounted automatically on /media/DE61A-1D8C , I find it in df output.
# df
Filesystem #K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
[...]
/dev/sdb1 1234556 ...
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df -h doesn't show /dev/sda
I am using df -h to get my disk space and the results are:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
tmpfs 396M ...
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how to get the available space left deterministically?
When I use the cut command, everytime I get a different result which makes sense. So I wonder how to get the answer similar to this but consistent across different Ubuntu nodes?
ubuntu@ip:~/...
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How to fix exfat filesystem
So we accidentally caused our server to go down without a clean shutdown and now df is reporting wrong stats for the external usb (exfat).
root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# df -h
Filesystem Size Used ...
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i can't install Ubuntu on my Microsoft Surface 3 (not Surface Pro)
My Surface 3 has 2gb ram and 18gb free space in 64 gb hard drive. It shows this when installing ubuntu:
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df -h showing weird output
I am getting a weird output on df -h for one of the partitions. Here is the output:
/var/sdc$ df -kh
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 990M 569M 354M 62% /
/dev/sda2 ...
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Copy Active Partition To Use With VMWare
I want to take my physical drive to a virtual drive. I think the only partition with data on it is sda3 from my df output below.
How can I create a file or .vdi from this drive to use with VMWare??
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Deleting 'core dump' folders/files in root partition for space
On trying to upgrade my system, I keep getting a message that I need to free up space in the root partition. Here's the situation:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 ...
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How to run a command at login
So I've been looking around and I can find ways to run commands every time you open a new terminal and inadvertently figured out how to make a continuous loop of opening terminals.
I've edited ....
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Ubuntu 14.04 - After update root disk /dev/sda is labelled /dev/root
After updating with apt-get upgrade the root partition /dev/sda is now labelled /dev/root.
This is a KVM vm which is why it's showing as /dev/sda rather than /dev/sda1
I did not update the kernel.
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Finding my swap partition
It looks like I have 40 GB of swap:
wuser@wavesftwDell:~$ cat /proc/swaps
Filename Type Size Used Priority
/dev/dm-1 ...
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btrfs balance “No space left on device” with no success on any -dusage and -musage values
I have the following issue with btrfs balance start / on a btrfs on an 140 GB LVM with 4 physical device (in case that matters):
sudo btrfs balance start / fails with ERROR: error during balancing '/'...
