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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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Disk space discrepency between chkdsk and Window Explorer

Our Windows Server 2003 server was setup with only 12GB on the C drive, therefore we now have disk space problems. Yesterday I freed up 1 Gb of space (by moving the pagefile to D), then came in this morning to see only 17.2 Mb available, when…
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Howto resize Xen virtual host disk size on Debian?

I am using a loop device disk setup (not lvm) for Xen Debian (squeeze) guest systems on my Debian (squeeze) host system. I searched for a way of extending guest system disk size. I came accross simple dd commands and nasty mkfs commands. I wonder if…
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how can i merge two partitions in two different servers in to one

I am using centos. I have having two servers with disk space 300 GB in each server. Is it possible to merge it and can be used as a single diskspace of 600gb
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Oracle EM detect a disk full, but the system has plenty of free space

My enterprise manager instance on Oracle 10.2.0.4 throws the following alert on a regular basis: Name=db4 Type=Host Host=db4 Metric=Disk Utilization (%) Disk Device=sd1 Timestamp=Oct 4, 2011 2:15:50 PM GMT Severity=Critical Message=Disk Utilization…
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Increase Space of /usr directory in Cent OS

I have php 5.1.6 running on my CentOS 5 server running Apache 2.2.3 I run Command as: fdisk -l gives output Disk /dev/xvda: 100.0 GB, 100000595968 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 12157 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280…
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Directory quotas on Windows Server

We're developing a SaaS application which, among other things, provides space for Mercurial (Hg) repositories. Now, Hg repo is just a directory on a disk and each user is allowed to have as many of them as possible, but the limiting factor here is…
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Quota, AD and C#

At first, my mother tongue is not English, so I apologize for the possible mistakes. I'm working on a WS2008R2 server with an Active Directory and a web platform manages this AD with C# code. A group of users have to be able to create user accounts…
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SQl Server table using too much diskspace

I have two identical tables in two seperate databases on the same instance of SQL server, defined as follows (note this is third party software so I can't change the table schema):- EDIT: [RouteParamXml] nvarchar NOT NULL is always an empty…
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Disk Usage is increasing rapidly, fixed after Server restart

It was suggested to me that this may be the case: Sometimes it happens that you still have a file handle open to a file that has been deleted. df -ht shows the disk usage increasing rapidly - like 1 GB per day. du -skh does not show any disk…
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Backup website with SSH to offsite location

I need to backup a website, but I am working within size constraints. I've tried the old tar -cpzf backup.tar.gz * but there isn't enough free space on the host to write the file. I have a few other servers that have enough space and that support…
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Insufficient disk space; try again later when trying to send mail

I am trying to send an email with attachment using PHP and I get this error: Insufficient disk space; try again later Insufficient disk space; try again later returntosender: cannot select queue for root Insufficient disk space; try again…
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I already reached my server quota? how can i see what is using so much space?

I have my server on Mediatemple and i reached my 20GB quota. I installed Ubuntu and many plugins but I don't know how I reached that 20GB? I'm running a website but I'm sure it is not taking all that space!
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Inaccurate reported available disk space

I have an Ubuntu server with SAN attached storage. It has a size of 770G, using 197M and reports only 731G free space. Where did the rest of the free space go? Is there any way to reclaim it without formatting? df -hl Filesystem Size…
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How to mount space in /dev/sda2

I have EC2 instance running, executing command df -h in the putty i get the following result Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 9.4G 11M 100% / tmpfs 854M 0 854M 0%…
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