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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SSD disk space loss after running Laravel Jobs - any solutions?
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Day before I had 20GB free space. Then I run laravel job and I got 0, then I deleted some files, cache and etc. and somehow I got 20GB more. Next day I run this jobs one more time and I got ...
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Ubuntu not recognizing full RAID disk on Dell Poweredge R720
On installation the system only gives me the ability to install on a 3.5tb section of my hard drives. However the system is configured with 3625gb of storage.
When typing sudo fdisk -l it responds as ...
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Hidden disk usage
I have a problem with hidden disk usage on my Ubuntu 22.04. As you can see, the ncdu utility only finds ~30GB on the system:
Whereas Ubuntu's System Monitor finds that 88 GB are being used:
What's ...
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How to give space for sda2 from sda4(/dos)
I have got too much not used space in sda4(/dos) folder
But, actually my space in sda2 is about to end :(
So, the question is: Is there a way to make available space for sda4 from 90GB to for ...
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space to do a system-upgrade
I want to upgrade a 20.04 system (xubuntu) to 22.04.
LANG=C df
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 30G 25G 3,6G 88% /
/dev/loop6 500M 3,6M ...
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Removing Ubuntu from my PC [duplicate]
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Before a lot of years, my main work in computer was made with Ubuntu because I hase a computer without an official bought Windows version and I was afraid from legal suits not legal work. When ...
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mounted samba share saving files to local disk
My Ubuntu computer is reporting that the local disk is full. The computer is primarily used for homeassistant and frigate and I have a Windows file server mounted to Ubuntu to save security camera ...
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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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Trying to run R gave me "Fatal error: cannot create 'R_TempDir' "
I checked partition for /tmp and it seems to be full.
>> df /tmp
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 23854928 23579092 0 100% /
Checking all the ...
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(Ubuntu 22.04) The root folder is mysteriously full [duplicate]
I attempted to install Nuclear from the terminal using sudo snap install nuclear. The attempt failed and the following was the output error:
Reading package lists... Error!
E: Write error - write (28: ...
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preseed have last /home volume take up all remaining disk space
I've got a preseed config that provides a static size of disk space for /, /boot, /var, /usr, /home, and maybe a few other partitions.
Is there a way to have the /home partition use up all the ...
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Cannot rebuild initramfs images, due to lack of space
I am running out of space on the disk '/boot'. When trying to use the software updater, a message appears suggesting to remove old kernels using sudo apt autoremove, and to set COMPRESS=xz in ...
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disk usage full 100% but there is 112M available
I already delete the large record backup but my disk is still full.
this image directory is /datadrive/backups/project_name#
when I run df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/...
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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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huge kern.log and syslog files:
Ubuntu 22.04, when I analyzed the disk space, just realized that my kern.log and syslog files are getting huge, taking gigabytes of my disk space. When I opened the files, I saw a similar pattern in ...
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22.04.2 server image is *three* times the size of 22.04.1: why?
I'm sorry to have to say it, but the 22.04.2 server install has exploded. Unreasonably. What's going on?
I've been packaging Ubuntu-based VMs for several years, first on 20.04.x, then 22.04, 22.04.1, ...
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Very weird memory use [duplicate]
out of nowhere my ubuntu 22.00 complained that it's memory was full. After some investigation I came across something really, really weird. Potentially worring.
I listed the use of the various dirs in ...
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No storage in the disk error when there is plenty of storage left in it
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS desktop. I'm trying to extract some file from a zip, during which I get low disk storage error indicating less than 1 GB is left and the extraction fails because of it. When ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 root folder claims to have run out of disk space but it is not full
I am running ubuntu 22.04 and gparted claims that my disk is out of space. Gparted claims that the whole drive is full, while sudo du command says on 23GB is being used. I have tried everything to ...
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Free Space is not detected
Recently started using Ubuntu 22.04. I want to copy files from a flash disk (about 5 GB)
but OS states not enough space. However, I can see from the terminal and from the partitions manager that more ...
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LVM logical volume space used
I am using the lvdisplay command in LVM and am attempting to determine the used size of the logical volume from the following output:
--- Logical volume ---
LV Path /dev/vg1/Web
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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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Disk on root is almost full but can't find which files take the space
Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop
If I do df -h i can see that my root folder is almost full
And when I list the files in the folder, seems to me they are all system needed files.
I tried to look a bit into it ...
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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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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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Ubuntu 22.04: Missing Disk Space [duplicate]
I have installed Ubuntu 22.04 on a home server on 1 TB SSD with other drives of 6TB as storage.
I needed some space on my SDD and noticed it is using less (approx ~ 500GB only). Looked at many ...
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Disk is full but du (disk usage) does not give any clues which directory contains the data [duplicate]
I have a strange problem. My harddrive is according to df -h full:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
tmpfs 383M 1.1M 382M 1% /run
/dev/sda1 38G 36G 0 ...
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Swap partition on VPS
Sorry that this is a very similar thread to some others, but as this is a production server I need to make sure what I am doing is right first time and I am still an Ubuntu novice.
I have an Ubuntu 20....
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I deleted a 300GB "syslog.1" file in "/var/log/", because it had filled my disk drive. However, the disk space remains used [duplicate]
I was prompted that I was running low on disk space, so I checked my disk useage and found a "syslog.1" file that was over 300GB. When I opened the file it was an endless stream of some ...
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What Gnomes are in use? Snaps directory is 4.1GB
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04. I seem to have four different snap versions of GNOME on my machine, and they seem to be using quite a large amount of memory. I'd love to be able to remove some, however I'm ...
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need help interpreting fdisk and gnome-disk-utility output
I am on a fresh Ubuntu Server 22.04 install and during install, I think I might have chosen a filesystem which I do not understand:
cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
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How to free up some disk space on my Linux machine?
I'm still new to the Linux world, My disk size is 493 G
And when I use the command du -hs * /opt/conda, The total size I use is less than 95g
But when I use the df -h command:
Disk Size is 493 G
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Unmet depedencies and not enough free space (eventhough i have plenty) [duplicate]
I'm super new in this Ubuntu world, so i have been having a hard time looking for solutions( also English isnt my first language so please be kind).
I recently tried installing TeXLive but the ...
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failure of startup to login screen -18.04
Was using bleach bit to cleanup. PC has very low disk space. Now won't start up and is showing stopping user manager for UID 123. NB: PC shut down unanticipated and now no start up to login.
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Disk usage monitor shows disk as almost full but graph doesn't
I do have a problem with my Ubuntu 22.04 instance running in a virtual machine (VMWare Workstation 17). The disk monitor shows up that my main drive is almost full. But when I click on that drive the ...
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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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How to determine the reason for a full hard drive?
My hard disk indicates that it is almost completely full, but when I check the files, I should have plenty of storage space left over.
I ran the command df -h and this is the result of one of the ...
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How do you utilize expansion as space on Ubuntu?
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04. It was installed with an ISO image from a USB stick of 6TB. It however produces "Low disk space" error.
df -h returns:
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How to list disk usage by directory, excluding certain output
I am trying to get a sense of disk usage and I want to exclude the ones I cannot access like this - any suggestions?
sudo du -h / --max-depth=1 | grep -v "cannot access"
Thanks.
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Used 100% disk but the used number shown is wrong
My /dev/sdb2 partition used up all it's space but the Used number is less than total Size of the partition in large number. I don't know what is happening.
How to check where was my missing 30Gb?
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Trying to run fasterq-dump to download/format $SRR, but receiving error code
I am trying to use SRA toolkit on Kubuntu local terminal to run an accession for Illumina. Every time I get a new error, and so far, I have figured it out, but this time it is saying there is no disk ...
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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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Disk Space Eaten & Missing
My root drive has a 143.9 GB of space. I have a vbox vdi that 60GB and the operating system, which should be another 30 GB... leaving me 54GB of free space.
Problem:
This morning I randomly got a &...
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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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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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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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How to find directories where the disk space has gone over a period of time
Two days ago I had 30GB of space now I have none. There are many tools that can tell which directories take up the most space on the disk. However, is there a tool that can tell which directories ...
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How can I find the files that Filelight isn't showing? DiskFree shows 227GB used; Filelight shows only 89GB used
Ubuntu 20.04, with KDE installed on top.
I'm running low on space on my root drive. Which isn't that big of a deal because I can always just move things to the other drives on my system.
Normally, I'd ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 boots to flashing cursor when low on space (due to Shinobi)
This is a 20.04 Ubuntu PC running a Shinobi server and not much else.
Shinobi has a default behaviour that when a new camera is added it will constantly save its video files into the Shinobi admin ...
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How i can use D: Drive in Dual Boot From Ubuntu(Single Hard Disk)?
I want to use my 1TB Hard disk in ubuntu. I have dual-booted Windows And Ubuntu. I can't see D in Ubuntu, in disks it says unmounted. I'm booting from SSD(C:)
