Questions tagged [disk-usage]
Disk space usage: how much space do my files take?
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Interpreting results of du -sh on different file systems
I have a collection of *.jpg files and intend to do some ImageMagick on them.
Making a backup and checking, du -sh gives 762M on vfat and 5.6G on exfat.
Why is that? Is it a bug or a feature?
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Large disk usage difference between two MariaDB servers with similar data [closed]
I'm trying to understand a significant discrepancy in disk usage between two MariaDB servers that are hosting the same application and (apparently) the same data. The two servers are entirely separate ...
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Linux Mint: /var/log shows 165GB disk usage but no large files found
My Linux Mint system reports that /var/log occupies 165 GB of space, but all subdirectories and files within it are small (total <100 MB). This is causing the root partition (/) to fill up, ...
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Why does the Use% shown by the df command not reflect the correct value? [closed]
On our RHEL 7.9 systems, we have noticed some strange behavior.
Each machine has 4 disks, each with an 8TB capacity, but we are only using about 1.9TB on a partition.
What doesn’t make sense is that ...
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df shows 539G used on /apps, but du shows only 47G — unexplained disk usage discrepancy
I have a problem and I don't know what the problem is.
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda4 5.0G 113M 4.9G 3% /
/dev/mapper/appsvg-...
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Showing Disk Usage Analyzer in Main Menu
Have installed Trisquel 11.0 LTS. It is a desktop environment based on MATE 1.26 and Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Have seen there exists the program Disk Usage Analyzer. But where can I find it? I want to ...
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How much disk space is needed to compile a Linux kernel in a VM?
I just coded two system calls using the Linux 6.12.1 kernel, and I transferred the kernel to a Lubuntu virtual machine with 25 GB space (on Virt-Manager/KVM), but when I compile the new kernel, I get ...
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How to show directory sizes in tree format with correct values and depth control
I can't solve what I want using the tree, du, or df commands.
I'm using:
du version 9.6
tree version 2.2.1
What I want:
For the current directory, list all directories recursively to a depth of 3, ...
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Root filesystem is completely full [closed]
everyone.
I have a completely filled root filesystem, but I can't figure out what it is.
sudo df -h /
/dev/nvme0n1p2 49G 49G 0 100% /
sudo du -h --max-depth=1 --exclude="media" --...
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Kodi on Ubuntu Studio filled disk, somewhere?
Apologies in advance if there is an existing answer I should consult...
Fired up Kodi for the first time on my Ubuntu Studio 24.04 box. It has a 1 TB hard drive, of which almost half is consumed by ...
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MySQL general_log.CSV is 47GB in Production – How to Free Space?
I’m managing a production MySQL server running on a VM, and I just discovered that the general_log.CSV file in /var/lib/mysql/mysql/ has grown to 47GB, consuming almost 70% of the disk space.
Here’s ...
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How can I install TeXLive bbm.sty without the full 3 GB install?
I have a fairly large (~ 1 GB) texlive install on Ubuntu 24 LTS:
$ apt list --installed | grep texlive
WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts.
texlive-base/...
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how to find files that bloats a specific partition? [duplicate]
My title may not be the best so I will try to explain it.
I am using an old computer (more than 10y) with a ubuntu style distro. It has a lot of independent partitions.
I recently had an alert telling ...
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No space left on device but only 50% space and 1% inodes used
This is on a Iomega IX200 NAS which had been expanded to 4TB disks from the original 2TB.
It all looks good.
But when I try to save data to a new file I get the "No space left on device error&...
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My disk is 244.5GB of 258GB full and I don't know what is taking up all the space
I recently resolved a login loop on my Linux Mint machine caused by my drive being full. I have successfully cleaned out 31.2GB of data by running standard cleaning commands and by removing all my ...