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Input/output error reading USB backup drive on CentOS 6.4

I'm suddenly seeing some strange behaviour on our USB backup drive that doesn't make sense to me: (2013-10-21 14:58:23 [root@newdc /]$ cd /mnt/backup/ (2013-10-21 14:59:03 [root@newdc backup]$ ls -la ls: reading directory .: Input/output error total…
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df command show no output

I'm running the linux distro on my server.When i want to verify the size of the disk, i'm issuing this commnand to get the output. df -h But it does not produce ANY output.Strangely enough when i'm issuing other command such as fdisk -l or du -h…
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Whats the output format of "df -ki" in AIX?

I just wanna know the output format (the order of columns) when running the command df -ki in an AIX system. I dont have access to an AIX system , and since it doesnt run on x86 machines , i cant try it out in a virtual machine either. Can someone…
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df showing wrong size on opensuse in brand new disk

I have just installed a new 2TB disk, but "df -h" shows only 1.8TB - total size, and 1.7TB of free space. I have not used the disk yet. I realized it after I ran "mke2fs -t ext4". Here are some output: fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 2000.4 GB,…
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df command showing incorrect information

i have two rhel 7.9 servers with replicated glusterfs storage, and the df command is dispalying wrong size information on both servers The machines size on Vcenter is 16.3To but when using df it shows 17To on the glusterfs FS. Does anyone have any…
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df reports zero used space

On a VM in azure we mount some blob storage via NFS, which generally works good. I now found though, that df reports wrong values for usage of the NFS storage: root@myVM:~# df -h /mnt/blob/ Filesystem Size…
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Centos 7.4, dev/vda1 is 100%

My VPS on DO now has an issue of dev/vda1 is 100% since around 3 months ago, at that time, I did poweroff & reboot then disk spaced freed. But the thing rans into some bigger issue since 1 week ago, poweroff & reboot could not release free space any…
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df output does not change after deletion of a 41G file

Maybe my understanding of what df does is incorrect? I am wondering what is the problem here 1. checking usage $ sudo df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 443G 436G 4,6G 99% / 2. identifying a large file $…
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Difference between Volume Disk Space and Disk usage returned by ncdu

My server has a 130 GB Volume attached. To check the free disk psace, I run df -h -x tmpfs -x squashfs | grep -v /run/shared and I get : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 965M 0 965M 0% /dev /dev/xvda1 128G…
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df -h shows / is 100% but du -sh * is not showing where the utulization is

OS: Oracle Linux 7.5 df -h keeps showing that / is 100% full but searching on / with du -sh * is not showing where that utilization could possibly be, any help and suggestions will be appreciated. I also can't install lsof coz of the space…
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Find what is using disk space in CentOS 7 (du vs df vs lsof)

I have a server, CentOS 7, that show disk usage on DF way higher than you can see on DU and I trying to understand why DF shows 38GB used DU shows 14GB There is no mount point on any folder Checking LSOF for deleted files, there are couple, but…
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Can't get disk space back after running out of space (and removing some files) in Ubuntu 18.04

This is driving me crazy! My server run out of space. I cleaned up some files by removing the folders. The amount of free space didn't go up (% wise). This is what I now see: As you can see, it shows 315gb size, of which 298gb is in use. So why…
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Why did I suddenly gain 300GB on my server

I've been working on my server all day, doing various things. I know, unquestioningly (found the evidence by scrolling up in one of my terminal sessions) that I had about 900GB of space 4 hours ago. It's been about that the last few days. Now,…
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df shows negative bytes used.... only during dd

I have begun a dd to copy a partition on one usb drive, to a 2nd usb drive. While I have freshly reformatted the destination partition (/dev/sdc1), and it checks out with fsck normally and shows it is empty with no issues in df, like…
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Clarification on understanding Linux disk usage with df and how tmpfs should be assessed

I have searched serverfault, SO and other sites but could not find a clear answer. I have done some reading on the basics of Linux storage and filesystems, but I'm still unclear about how to solve my problem. My aim is to do a simple assessment of…
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