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

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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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Installing all applications on a SSD disk and putting all files on HDD disk

I am entirely new to Ubuntu and my question here touches the somewhat confusing (at least for me) theme of disc partitioning. I've recently bought a new laptop with 250GB SSD and 1TB HDD hard drives ...
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Root drive is running out of disk space. How can I free up space?

I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 and I want to free up some space in my root directory, which is overloaded. I especially want to change the path used for installing applications (they are getting installed ...
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Can't upgrade due to low disk space on /boot

I try to do do-release-upgrade but then I get: Not enough free disk space The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 25.7 M free space on disk '/boot'. Please free at least an ...
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What is taking up so much space on my disk, beside the filesystem?

I have only one disk in my computer, a 80 GB SSD. It is formatted as a single ext4 partition (no swap), and all the usual folders are installed on it (I keep lots of data on external media, but /home ...
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No more disk space: How can I find what is taking up the space?

I've run into a problem on one of my servers running 16.04: there is no disk space left. I have no idea what is taking up the space. Is there a command to list the current directory sizes, so I can ...
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What's a command line way to find large files/directories to remove and free up space?

Looking for a series of commands that will show me the largest files on a drive.
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df -h - Used space + Avail Free space is less than the Total size of /home

As the output of df -h shows here, something is eating up 5GB of free space. So, it's not available to use. I'm also noticing sometimes that the hard disk gets filled up to 100% sometimes. So, I had ...
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How do I find the amount of free space on my hard drive?

Is there a way to quickly check the amount of free / used disk space in Ubuntu? I would assume you could right click on 'file system' in the file browser and choose 'properties' or something but ...
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What do I do when my root filesystem is full?

My / folder is reading as full and I can't update software or do anything. Not sure what I'm doing wrong here. $ df -h Results: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 ...
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Running out of inodes

I cannot update Ubuntu because I have 99% inode usage. What is the easiest way for me to alleviate this problem? Thanks for your help.
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How do I resize my /boot partition?

/boot has become 100% full somehow. df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu-root 191078052 31758960 149612804 18% / udev ...
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Systemd logs (`journalctl`) are too large and slow

My journalctl is keeping over 300 MB of logs as revealed by journalctl --disk-usage. Everything appears to be in order when I run journalctl --verify: $ journalctl --disk-usage Archived and active ...
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list files and folders of the root partion

My root partion is full and I am going to clean up it a bit. But I have confused with partitions and folders. I.e. deleting unneeded files in home directory doesn't increase / partition size but if I ...
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apt-get: No space left on device (12.04)

I have read every thread I could find -- even the ones that say that the question has been answered elsewhere but none of them address the specific issue I am having. Update Manager ran and produced ...
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Check how space is distributed on a Linux system

I know how to check space left with: df -h and I know to check the space of a folder with: du -ch /path/to/folder/ But let's say I have a 500 GB HardDisk and 350GB are used: Wich is the best tool/...
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How to get disk usage from command line?

How can I get the current disk usage (in %) of my hard drive from the command line?
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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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Not enough space in /var/cache/apt/archives/

When I run the command to install the package solr-jetty, I am told You don't have enough free space in /var/cache/apt/archives/ Here's the result of the df -H command: I have installed Ubuntu ...
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Can't clean a full /boot because of unmet dependencies

I got an error message explaining my /boot is full. trying to clean up old image files always seems to fail because of disk full errors or dependency errors. Could someone explain where I’m going ...
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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 Ubuntu. How much space does a Ubuntu installation take up on the disk?
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How can I free space from a massive 39.5GB /var/log/ folder?

I just got a message from the default disk analyses software (Baobab) that I only have 1GB left on the hard drive. After some search, I found that the /var/log/ folder is the cause of this. Some file/...
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Meaning of "i" in "MiB"?

I see the usage of "MiB" as measure to represent the size in Ubuntu. What does MiB stand for? In particular the "i"?
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disk is full, but cannot find big files or folders

Ubuntu server shows me that I use almost all disk: Usage of /: 95.5% of 118.12GB And I try to find big folders and files, run ncdu: ncdu 1.8 ~ Use the arrow keys to navigate, press ? for help ...
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Ubuntu thinks Btrfs disk is full but it's not

$ cat /etc/fstab # <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump> <pass> UUID=a168d1ac-4e13-4643-976d-6e47ea1732b1 /boot ext2 defaults ...
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File System Usage Indicator

I am unable to find a suitable utility to just indicate the file system usage (% space free for partitions) on the panel. And I am not looking forward to install any bad kinds of desktop management ...
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Why do "df" and "du" commands show different disk usage?

I cannot access ubuntu system on my pc, the error message: "the system is running in low graphics mode" and I tried some commands I searched from internet. I found out a problems seems there is no ...
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var/log/syslog growing indefinitely in size

The disk that contains Ubuntu on my computer is 115GB in size. When the disk was 114.7GBfull. I started deleting some files here and there to free up around 5GB. But I noticed the disk was 114GB ...
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Why do df and du show different output?

When I execute the command df -h /tmp it says disk utilization is 100%, but when it try du -sh /tmp it says disk utilization is 2%. I want to know why these commands shows different output, how these ...
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space on disk running low error logging /var/log/cups/error.log

I have Lubuntu 16.10 installed on my disk mounted as /. The problem is that the CUPS log file( /var/log/cups/error.log) grows all the time until I no have free space left on the disk... So when I ...
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Ubuntu 12.10 recognizes me only 3GB of free space

I have installed Ubuntu 12.10 64-bits and it worked perfectly (during days), until now. Suddenly several error messages coming from anywhere tell me that I have no free space on the disk. And now the ...
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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 partition and ...
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df -h shows incorrect free space

Here is my df-h output. In here /media/Songs is using almost 100% disk space. root@LAB:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 19G 8.7G 9.2G 49% / ...
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How can I quickly make a large file?

What is a quick and easy way to make a file that is, say, 2 GB in size?
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Nautilus statusbar visibilty - Quickly check free space

In prior versions, I would open Nautilus and check the statusbar, which would tell me how much free space there is. Now, the statusbar isn't shown by default. I know you can enable it from the View ...
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Disk Usage Very Strange

Just today, my Ubuntu 11.04 started prompting me that my HDD is full ... I know I am filling up my HDD fast, but its the storage partition I expect to be filling up not my 60+GB OS Partition. So I did ...
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Root filling up although it should have some space

This has been perplexing me for some time. I'm on Ubuntu 11.04. My root partition is filling up and I can't figure out what's causing it. Even stranger, when I run df -h, this is the output: ...
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Install Lubuntu 18.10 on a 4GB Virtual Machine

I read that is possible to install Lubuntu on a 4 GB pendrive, so I would like to do the same on a 4GB virtual machine (on VirtualBox 5.2). The problem is that when I execute it, it says that there is ...
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Big /var/log/journal?

I don't understand why the /var/log/journal/ folder is so big. For example, by executing the command systemctl -f, i see the fill. If I click on an email on Thunderbird, it generates dozens of lines ...
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Why doesn't this show the hidden files/folders?

I was looking through my system with du -sch ./* to find the big useless files I may have stockpiled with no reason, when I found this: $ du -sch ./* du: cannot read directory ‘./drbunsen/.gvfs’: ...
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Advanced disk usage analyzing software?

I can't really find a great disk analyzing software for Ubuntu. The default apps in Ubuntu, Baobab (and df -h) do work, but there are no advanced features. What I am looking for is like glary ...
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"No space left on device" when installing packages, yet I have space left

Whether through update manager, or through terminal, I error out. When I try sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade: Fetched 1,024 kB in 20s (51.0 kB/s) Reading package lists... Done ...
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Which files should I remove from /var/log directory to free space in Ubuntu 16.04?

I have installed Ubuntu 16.04 two days ago on a 158GB HDD and it is already showing 128GB space is used. After checking the drive I've found that the directory /var/log is occupying 116GB and it is ...
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Disk is full and now I can't boot into Ubuntu

I was syncing photos and videos from my phone using SyncThing onto my laptop running Ubuntu 20.04.1. The local SSD (/dev/sda2) was completely full so after copying to an external hard disk drive I ...
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df shows all space taken, but du doesn't add up

I'm having a problem with Ubuntu 12.04 LTS. This is the second time I've encountered this problem in the last 3 weeks. The first time is described in this closed question on StackOverflow. The TL;DR ...
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Why doesn't deleting files increase available space?

Recently I got a message about "0 bytes free" on a certain partition. So I looked and, sure enough: $ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 65190604 ...
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How to find all files with size greater than...?

Is there any GUI software that can explore a tree and find all files with size greater than some amount? Neither Nautilus nor Nemo seem to be able to do this. In my memory, I could do this with PC-...
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Task manager a UI like with Windows 10's one

I like the UI in the Windows 10 task manager: In particular, I like the fact that the most important four shared resources on a computer are displayed without spurious information, and the color-...
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Why should I move everything into /opt?

Every time I read the tips for installing an SDK, IDE, some extension and so on, it says, that I should unpack them in /opt folder. Why do I need to do that? When I was installing Ubuntu, I read ...
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How to clean up dev/sda1 as it's full

I've been doing jmeter tests and have had a few OutOfMemoryExceptions, so I've bumped up the heap memory in JMeter. But now it seems I can't run anymore tests as it says I'm using 94.9% of 14Gb. When ...
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