For questions related to disk space utilisation.
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VirtualBox wont allow choose "dynamically allocated" hard disk file on creation dialog
I need to create a "dynamically allocated" hard disk file on virtual box but on creation dialog there is no option to it, there is only "Pre-allocated Full size" and "Split into 2GB parts" options on dialog as image below:
VirtualBox disk creation…
jhon
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Linux: How to find - without du or find - the largest or fastest-growing file or directory on a disk?
Every so often one or other of our servers will announce that it's at 90% disk capacity, and we go to run some variant of 'du' on it, to drill down and find what's so big or what's growing quickly, and of course that takes more and more time on…
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How to resize kvm vm host
KVM Host Environment:-
# cat /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l).
# /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 2.1.3
With the below commands i have resized the VM host
virsh destroy vm1
qemu-img resize…
Ekam
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folder size not corresponding to files inside
I have a problem! My server (Centos OS WHM) is out of space. Browse directories and naturally the biggest directory is /home/userfolder/.
Using the du -sch * command, I can check the size 99GB.
[home]# du -sch *
99G userfolder
36K …
naber brene
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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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Is Cloud Best Practice To Still Have Multiple Disks (Volumes) For a Server?
In the old days of physical servers, it was considered good practice (at least at the places I have worked at) for a server to always have at least two disks (volumes) no matter how simple an application was being hosted.
One disk for the Operating…
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Upgrading Disk Space
I have a CentOS 7 VPS with 40GB of SSD space, I recently upgraded it to 80GB. How do extend the / partition? I don't want to reinstall Centos 7 and the Centos Web Panel as it was suggested to me that I do. I only want to extend the disk size.
Here…
Keith Williams
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How do I extend the space of /dev/sda3 on Oracle Linux Server 7.9
Disk capacity is at 105GB, but the root directory (/dev/sda3) capacity is only 39GB, I want to increase the capacity. How can we do this? By the way, the OS is Oracle Linux Server 7.9.
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted…
sei ou
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Disk Partitioning errors after Disk resize in Compute Engine
Currently stuck trying to partition disk.
Getting some errors I don't understand. Might be in over my head. My question is at bottom.
The disk has been resized using GCP/Compute Engine Disk manager. from 80 to 200
While trying to partition the space…
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Logs hidden by a mounted disk in the same directory
We have (more than) a linux server on AWS that use a network file system, in our case AWS EFS, mounted on /logs directory.
It happens sometimes that:
the machine is rebooted
for any reason the network file system is not mounted, so all process…
Luca Moscato
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How to expand partition that is in the middle of other partitions (or create new and migrate data over)
So I have a need to expand a partition (/tmp) on a system and not understanding exactly how to proceed with this (I did not initially set the partitions up).
The following commands show:
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 4798.6 GB, 4798552211456 bytes,…
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Process unable to write file - disk space ran out what happened?
I had a situation with a server misconfig. Nginx was unable to write its logs due to invalid file permissions and checking with free the buffers/caches were at about 3.2GB (out of 4GB Memory).
Nginx master process was able to write logs - but the…
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Sudo Error When Resizing Azure VS Disk
I upgraded my disk size from 30G to 2048G. Now I need to resize it from OS and am following this article. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks
The problem is when I try to unmount the partition I get…
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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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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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