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How do I get Bamboo's disk usage under control?

Here's the scenario: Our source code is on Github. We run Bamboo (2.7.3 currently) on a Linux server here at work. We have several builds that are farmed out to remote agents (for example, to build iPhone software). On the remote agent, Bamboo…
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Windows Server 2008 Disk Size

I have a fairly fresh install of Windows Server 2008. When I right click on the C: drive and view properties, it says I have used 25.2 GB, but when I select all the contents of the C: drive and view properties it says that the size (and Size on…
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ERROR: The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full!

Possible Duplicate: ERROR: The partition with /var/lib/mysql is too full! Hi I am running in a problem here I have a linux instance running on EC2. All was working fine till last night. Today morning it showed me some error stating that there…
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Windows 2008 R2 Server Core Disk Space Requirements/Recomendations

I'm in the preparation stage to roll out a few Windows 2008 R2 Server Core in my VMware ESX environment. In looking over the documentation it looks like Server Core can operate in a little as 6.5 GB of hard drive space. Less disk space required. A…
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Out of disk space on 4GB partiton yet it's only using 2GB

I'm running Ubuntu and have had a problem where the root partition has run out of disk space. When I perform df -h I get the following: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda6 4.6G 4.5G 0 100% / Yet there…
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Trying to grok Linux quotas, where is the data stored?

So all the tutorials and documentation for the Linux quota system has left me confused. For each filesystem with quotas enabled/on where is the actual quota information stored? Is it filesystem metadata or is it in a file? Say user foo creates a new…
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Is there some way to change windows disk size without actually increase it?

What I mean is, for test purpose, Can I change the disk size showed for Windows without actually increase it. For example, in "this computer", the real disk size is: 50gb, but I'd like to change some setting on windows to make it think that the disk…
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AWS CloudWatch alarm not populating data points - Insufficient state always

I am configuring CloudWatch alarm from the custom metric. Custom metric for disk space is configured, and I can see that every 5 minutes I am able to see the data. But when I set the alarm, the data points are not shown. For example: Image below is…
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How to expand the root disk partition without LVM

I was wondering how to increase the size of a root partition without LVM. We have a root partition of 21GB in total and another partition with 2TB in total. Ideally, we'd like to keep everything on / and just increase the size, potentially utilizing…
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how to use our existing mac pros as distributed storage?

I work in a lab that has to support some fairly processor-intensive user applications but basically has no need for local disk storage because we don't guarantee any kind of data persistence. However, being a Mac shop, we still buy Mac Pros with…
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Server - clean up tool?

I have a Windows 2008 virtual server. Some how every week my server uses an extra 2 gigs and I do not know the reason. Are there any free utility tools that can scan a server and let you know whats gobbling up space?
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BTRFS, out of space, but there is plenty of space

I am facing No space left on BTRFS. What I already tried myself: After remount RW: btrfs filesystem resize max /mnt/hdd I ran balance (for weeks ;-) ) with different parameters btrfs balance start /mnt/hdd -dlimit= Nothing did help. What…
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Low disk space truncate

When you have a low disk situation with a log file taking up some GB and you have no disk space left what is the best course of action without losing any of logs? Things I tried was to mv the log file and compress, but this will show up as deleted…
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Unexplained massive rmagick temporarily file

Problem We recently ran into a situation whereby some of our server instances were suddenly running out of disc space, evidenced by below graph: The reason for running out of disc space is a single /tmp/magick-??? file, that grows into a 4GB…
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How to free up disk space in root directory?

df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 1.9G 12K 1.9G 1% /dev tmpfs 391M 1.2M 389M 1% /run /dev/sda6 19G 17G 597M 97% / none 4.0K 0 4.0K 0% /sys/fs/cgroup none …
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