Questions tagged [df]
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increase the space in var partition on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
I'm running docker containers on my machine which puts it all in /var/. DF shows that /var/ is 6.9G and no free space. The Linux system is running under VMWare and I've given the server extra 100 GB's in VMWare console. How do I increase "/var" in…

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Why does df say my EFS disk has a capacity of 8 Exabytes?
This is a screenshot from my AWS EC2 instance, which the EFS disk is mounted on:
How can this be?

Josh Withee
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fdisk -l show 500GB, df -h show 240 gb
after incrase the disk space of my centos vm (in esxi hypervisor)
when i execute fdsik
[root@sopiqecommerce ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 504.7 GB, 504658657280 bytes, 985661440 sectors
Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size…

Quentin Merlin
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df requires root to show all disks
I am using CentOS Linux 7 (Core).
I have an issue with df command: it do not show all disks without root.
Compare:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/centos-root 19G 2.2G 17G 12% /
devtmpfs …

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df shows 2 GB size fdisk shows 60 GB
My newly purchased KVM based VPS (virtual server) running Centos 7 shows a - to my mind - odd result for the df -h command versus fdisk -l and ssm list.
I've put the output of various disk related commands below.
What I expected to see was a Size of…

Paul W
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Mounted device showing in df and /etc/mtab but missing from /proc/mounts and /proc/self/mounts. Why?
I have an ec2 instance that is booted from an ebs snapshot. The boot device is /dev/sda1. When I call mount, df -h or cat /etc/fstab I can see the device:
$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%…

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Can't find used inodes on server
I have a Xen VPS with Debian Linux installed. Once I found that all inodes are used. I checked this:
~# df -i
Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on
rootfs 3932160 3932160 0 100% /
udev 59227 262 58965 …

Ticksy
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df is reporting wrong information in an LVM
I had a full disk usage on /var/log (100%) and deleted a few files to increase space. this is and ext4 partition mounted with default options.
However, when I df -h I get:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted…

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After resizing NAS box new size does not show up under df -h
We have a 500GB NAS box attached to a Linux box and it appears as /dev/sdb. However after re-sizing from 345GB to 500GB the new size is not registering.
[root@localhost iscsi]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted…

user
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Aggregate disk usage with Munin
I want to aggregate a total disk usage in percent of all my nodes with Munin.
Actually I tryed :
[streaming;Disk-Space]
update no
contacts no
disk.graph_title Total Disk usage in percent
disk.graph_category disk
disk.graph_vlabel…

kollo
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Different output by df and du
I have an old RHEL 5.5 Box,
When I fire df -kh I see that /var is of 49 GB with 100 % usage.
But then I go inside the /var
cd /var
and I fire
du -kh
I see that only total 300 MBs are used.
I am not able to get it. Is is possible that this…

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Correctly predicting the amount of disk usage with find/ls/stat and df?
I'm trying to programatically calculate the number of files that can fit on a drive. The drive uses LUKS/ext4 and has a block size of 4096. Below is a df printout of the drive.
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%…

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I can't find the ghosts taking up space on my hard drive
Possible Duplicate:
How do I find out what is using up all the space on my / partition?
No Free disk space
$df -h
returns
/dev/sda1 16G 16G 0 100% /
tmpfs 502M 0 502M 0% /lib/init/rw
udev …

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Weird DF ourput in Red Hat 5.4 - Used < Size, but 0 available?
I have a server with two LUN's mounted from a local SAN. I have a configuration file in place for the vendor software we're using (splunk) that defined the size of the second LUN, but I had accidentally configured it as 6GB larger than it actually…

Matthew
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Server was ok for space on /, ran du -s, now server is at 100% usage on /
Our server running RHEL 4 apparently ran out of space today. It was working fine and I decided to run a du -s on an unused directory of files to see how much space we would free deleting it. Upon returning from the break room, the server was…

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