Questions tagged [df]
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Logwatch Disk Space Usage is Wrong/Stale
I have a RHEL 5 server that recently ran out of disk space and now our Logwatch for the server reports the following disk usage (I think this is the last accurate night before the /var partition filled up):
Filesystem Size Used Avail…

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What accounts for mystery hard drive space gone missing? (Difference between df and du)
To preface: there are lots of other useful questions (e.g. this and this) on possible causes for different sizes reported by df and du. None of the explanations apply to my exceedingly simple case, however, hence this new question.
I have a very…

crazygringo
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why iostat not showing one of my disk?
Please check the picture below. The df shows /dev/xsda mounted
But iostat not showing the device. Why?
[admin] /dev]$df -h | grep '/dev'
tmpfs 64M 0 64M 0% /dev
/dev/nvme1n1 7.0T 50G 6.6T 1% /etc/hosts
shm 2.0G …

Kramer Li
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Sort df Output by Mount Point
I need to get the output of df -h sorted alphabetically by its mount point in the Mounted on column.
However, df -h currently outputs similar to this:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p2 228G 14G 203G 7%…

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raidz1 6x4TB = 16.9t?
I an running Ubuntu server with the latest version of zfs-utils. I installed 6x4TB disks (lsblk -b shows all disks partition 1 size=4000787030016) and created a raidz1 configuration with all 6 disks. The raidz calculator website said I should see…

Gordon Shumway
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Which directories are not consiered by df?
I've used df -h to show me my disk usage:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 558G 249G 308G 45% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 8.8M 6.3G 1% /run
tmpfs 16G 0 16G…

Maxbit
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df not showing subdirectories, only "multiple" parent directory
For example, we have directory structure:
Root Directory
Directory #1
Subdirectory #1
Subdirectory #2
Subdirectory #3
Directory #2
Directory #3
Now I'm using df -h to check disk usage but:
When I'm in RootDirectory I'm getting spaces for…

Paul
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CentOS 7 disk space
I have a Centos7 server in which when executing the command df -h the occupied disk space is of 90GB but if I do a du -sh / * the sum of all directories does not correspond to 90GB, in this case it is around 60GB.
What could be causing this…

ldxd
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df reporting incorrect disk utilization
Why df reporting incorrect disk utilization report
$ df -h /shareddata
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/share_vg-lv_shareddata
886G 830G 11G 99% /shareddata
$ lsblk…

Zama Ques
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Centos Server no disk space but df says there is plenty
my Centos tells me that I have no disk space left:
[root@zff isos]# touch test
touch: cannot touch ‘test’: No space left on device
But df tells me that I have plenty of space left:
[root@zff isos]# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail…

alive-and-well
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Ubuntu thinks disk is full, df says disk usage is at 100% but also says 132G/400G is in use
Other applications are saying the disk is full as well, any ideas?
Here's the output from df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 400G 132G 714M 100% /
none 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev
none 4.0K …

user1325093
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Filesystem full with 'df' but seems actually not
On my AIX 6.1 server, i have a problem on a VIO LPAR.
A filesystem seams to be full with the 'df' command, but not with 'du' or 'ls' for example.
I searched but I don't understand where the problem comes from.
The 'df' command shows :
[root@VIO2]…

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df -h show system full even after clearing bloated log folder
I had my php_errors.log file fill up the system, I deleted the error logs, but when I type
df -h www/folder_name
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
bindfs 7.8G 7.4G 379M 96% /www/folder_name
How do I clear it up

Jon Awoyele
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What is stored on a LVM LogicalVolume
I have setup a LXC container with LVM as backingstore. On the host the command lvs --units m outputs the following:
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% Convert
vm dvg -wi-a---- 1000.00m
When…

J. Pee
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disk space for child partitions fills parent partitions
I got two partitions, one for /var/log and another for /var/log/audit
But first one is showing full (and raising all the alrms) because of the second one, as it is inside. /var/log/audit account for disk space of /var/log even if they are separated…