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Best method to track folder size growth over time?

I have a file server that has a pretty large folder tree. There's a shared folder, under that are 5 departmental folders. Nested inside of those are thousands of subfolders and files. I would like to be able to trace growth of those 5 departmental…
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Elasticsearch is using way too much disk space

I have a CentOS 6.5 server on which I installed Elasticsearch 1.3.2. My elasticsearch.yml configuration file is a minimal modification of the one shipping with elasticsearch as a default. Once stripped of all commented lines, it looks…
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df vs du. Is my disk really full?

Strange problem... Why i have full / partition used, but it's not really used? Fast info: xwing ~ # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 16G 15G 75M 100% / /dev/root 16G 15G 75M 100% / devtmpfs …
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Disk usage per user in Linux / Unix

I need to find out how much disk space is being occupied by each user on the network. I am aware of df and du commands: I could list the entire filesystem and AWK the output, but I wonder if there is a more standard command. The output I am looking…
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Ubuntu - /usr is full up, recommend anything in there I can delete?

A friend of mine partitioned his ubuntu system with /usr on a separate partition. That partition is now full. He can't use apt to install new software. Is there anything in /usr that he can safely delete (i.e. delete with rm, not apt-get…
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Ubuntu root drive running out of space, I can't find source through du or lsof

The root drive on an Ubuntu 15.10 machine is nearly out of space, but I can't find the source. The drive that's running out of space is sdb2, 313M of 51G available. The filesystem is ext4. Here is the sudo du -h / --max-depth=1 output: Filesystem …
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Find the used hard disk data and solve disk pressure

I have a server which is running Ubuntu 18.04 and it is also a worker node for K8s. Sometimes I see that K8s is killing pods on this machine because of disk presseur and when I get df -h --total I can see that 85% (1.5T) of the disk is in use at…
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Disk quota tab not shown for all hard drives in Windows Server SBS 2003

I have got a new job and the existing SBS 2003 domain setup is unsecure (i.e. everyone is a domain admin etc etc). There are lots of problem due to inexperienced "network admin", and I am trying to fix them one by one. There exist one issue which I…
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Could Puppet-reports be removed once these have been processed by Puppet-dashboard or PuppetDB?

Puppet-reports are using a lot of diskspace in: /var/lib/puppet/reports /var/lib/mysql The assumption is that it stores all reports in the MySQL database, because both paths are about the same size. The resource_statuses table consist of rows that…
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How do I most efficiently store and serve 1,000,000+ small gziped files on a Linux web server?

I have large static content that I have to deliver via a Linux-based webserver. It is a set of over one million small, gzip files. 90% of the files are less than 1K and the remaining files are at most 50K. In the future, this could grow to over 10…
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disk space overhead in ext4

I'd like to know if there's some rule (or formula) I can apply to find out how much of disk space will be used by the filesystem in an ext4 partition. for example, in a partition of 100 GB, how much can I actually use? does it depend on other…
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No free disk space

I have weird situation because Linux df command says that there is no free disk space [root@backup cache]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 72G 70G 0 100% / /dev/sda1 190M 11M …
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How do I find out what is using up all the space on my / partition?

I am on a large instance on Amazon's EC2 servers. I run the df command and get: root@db:~# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 9.1G 284M 98% / tmpfs 3.8G 0 3.8G 0%…
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calculating days until disk is full

We use graphite to track history of disk utilisation over time. Our alerting system looks at the data from graphite to alert us when the free space falls below a certain number of blocks. I'd like to get smarter alerts - what I really care about is…
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No more diskspace on server

after some wrong php code was exceuted on one of our servers, which tried to open up a file which didn't exist, we ended up with huge apache log files which weren't configured yet to rotate. We just deleted those logfiles. After which we saw that…
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