Questions tagged [disk-space-utilization]

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Can't find disk usage in one directory

Similar questions are asked frequently but no suggested answers solved my issue. I have some disk space usage that I can't find as well. In df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 144183992 136857180 2652…
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SSD suddenly full

Today the hard drive of our server was suddenly full. The disk usage always stayed around 50 % in the weeks and months before (old data is regularly expunged from the server). I deleted 10 GB of files in /tmp, which strangely freed 51 GB. Here is…
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MySQL partition "full"?

I have a server that runs Debian 6.2, with Apache, PHP5, and MySQL. Well, I hadn't done anything with MySQL at all so far, just Apache and PHP; I must have installed it (mysql-server) at some point along the line, and I decided to login to the…
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How to have 20-30TB space with many 2TB HDDs?

I want to build a server with a minimum of 20TB - 30TB space. I want to make a single server with many 2TB HDDs. How is it possible to have 20TB-30TB for a single folder ie. /var/www which will contain my server files. It is a web server.
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Disk size and space detection

i'm running a server with debian stable : Linux myhostname 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 00:01:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux It is running a nginx, mail server,ftp server and a mysql database. This morning postfix complained it''s running out…
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Disabling email capabilities on dedicated server

I have a dedicated server that doesn't need to use email on any account, and I found that the disk is getting full often. I use to fix it removing domlogs and some apache logs but now that didn't solved it so I searched what was using the most space…
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Calculate disk space occupied by many .png files

I have 357 .png files located in different sub dirs of the current dir: settings# find . -name \*.png |wc -l 357 settings# find . -name \*.png |…
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Home directory filling up on ubuntu

I have a dedicated ubuntu server that hosts a rails web app. It has 2.9TB free in the home directory, which is where I host the app (for convenience sake). We host video so the home directory was filling up, so I deleted everything that was…
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Linux server's disk full

I use WinSCP to upload my website's pages to a remote Ubuntu Linux server (VPS xen hosting). When I copy a file, it is written in the server with size=0. When I checked the free disk space: df -h I got: /dev/xvda with Avail=0% and Used=100% I tried…
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No Space left on device - Fedora 15

I am running Fedora15 and have the following message: No space left on device when saving files, unzipping etc.. I check my disk usage and got the following result: [root@aquanes mapper]# df -k Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%…
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CentOS 5 in VirtualBox 4.1 shows 0 as disk free space

I just installed a brand new centos 5.8 64bit on virtualbox 4.1.10 with guest additions installed I gave it a dynamically allocated 8gb hard drive. It is currently using only 3.9gb of that. However, it seems to think that 3.9 gb is all that is has…
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Is there a built-in Windows utility that displays information like the Disk Management MMC?

I am looking for a built-in Windows XP/Server 2003 utility that can pull drive information, similar to what the Disk Management mmc displays, including capacity and free space. Any ideas? Diskpart doesn't seem to report free space and Disk…
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Extending virtual servers space by mounting a hard drive located in a different server

Is it somehow possible to extend one's webspace by connecting to a server which has more space? Lets say I have a remote server with a small disk, and a local server with plenty of free disk space. Can I somehow permanently mount the space on my…
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find the file space occupied in terms on the bytes per allocation unit on a local Machine

I am operating on a Windows 7 OS. I performed a chkdsk and i know that the cluster space/bytes per allocation unit is 4096 bytes. I scanned my hard disk using a JDiskReport and the report is in the image Distribution of sizes in C:\ Size…
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Why is AppData\Roaming folder consuming so much disc space on Vista x64?

I have Vista x64 installed on a 75 GB partition. I just noticed it was almost full and started snooping around for the space hog. It turns out it's my AppData\Roaming folder. It's consuming nearly half the partition. I don't know what this…
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