Questions tagged [disk-space-utilization]

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After restarting mi Linux Virtual Machine I got a lot of free Space

I got an Ubuntu 15.04 Server with Apache,PHP and Mysql running , one day I got 100% Use in my disk using df -H. When I restarted the server with sudo shutdown -r now it now show 32% of usage, I think we have some temporal files that are not being…
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How to differentiate file & directory in the output of du -sh

The output of du -sh * | sort -h lists all the files and directories in sorted order based on size. But the problem is; the output doesn't differentiate the directories from files. For example: 15K file1backup 16K Desktop Is there any option to du…
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How to cleaning up /tmp

I have a CentOS web server with many clients on it. I see the /tmp reached DISKCRITICAL just after about two months since I made 8 GB (after expansion from 4 GB)! I want to know the reasons that make tmp getting full so quickly, and how to clean it…
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Will Enabling IIS Advanced Logging affect the Server performance

I have an IIS web server and my manager has asked to enable advanced iis logging. Would there be any impact on performance?
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Move Unallocated Space Between Disks

I am running Ubuntu's latest LTS. In /dev/sda I have sda1 and sda2, both are using a couple hundreds of MiB with a couple of GiB allocated. So far so good. In /dev/sdb I have just one partition, sdb1 - using over 300 GiB, about 98% of the available…
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File cannot be written though partition is not full

I have a strange problem for which I wasn'table to find any help so far. I am running a website on a Ubuntu 14.10 Root Server. The website uses Smarty (www.smarty.net) for caching. The website is pretty big so after three days the cache directory…
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Server disk claims to be full, but appears not to be

I have no idea how this is supposed to work. I did df -h and got this result. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/vzfs 39G 5.8G 24M 100% / none 512M 4.0K 512M 1% /dev So I have 39GB…
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CentOS 100% full disk, but no there any large file

In my CentOS server, hard disk is full but no there any large file in hard disk. I check files size with du command When i reboot the server problem is solve but after 1 or 2 days this problem happens again! How can i solve this problem for always? …
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Need to increase size of disk on Centos

I have a Linux dedicated server, I need a way more space, like 500G. I see that there is only 4G in my filesystem. I found an article to increase size Logical Volume from this article…
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Server Disk Space Calculation - Errors No such file or directory

When i do a du -h --max-depth=1 in my server i get following errors coming up, du: cannot access `./proc/13379/task/13379/fd/4': No such file or directory du: cannot access `./proc/13379/task/13379/fdinfo/4': No such file or directory du: cannot…
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A linux program/script for keeping certain folders below fixed size, removing oldest files if neccessary?

E.g. the autotrash would do perfectly if it wasn't bound to monitor trash folders only.
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Space of logical volume doesn't match space of filesystem

I have a server running CentOS 6.4. After installation, I had two logical volumes, /dev/VolGroup/lv_home and /dev/VolGroup/lv_root. I then deleted the lv_home and added the free space to lv_root. So now if I run lvdisplay I get: --- Logical volume…
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How to change disk space quota on Plesk 11

I have recently migrated a few domains on a Plesk 9 server to a new Plesk 11 server. The old Plesk 9 server had just 5GB of disk space, so I put disk space quotas on the domains hosted on it. The new Plesk 11 server has 50GB of disk space, but…
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Inconsistency between "du -sh" and "df -h"

Possible Duplicate: du vs. df difference I am running a server with Debian stable. If I call: df -h this is the result I get: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/my-var 2.8G 2.3G 358M 87% /var While if I…
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Ubuntu webserver is out of space

Apparently, I was using xvda1 disk which is out of space. How do I change the /etc/fstab so that I can make my xvda2 for top level, and xvda1 as additional resource? It's an EC2 instance: root@~# cat /etc/fstab LABEL=cloudimg-rootfs / ext4 …
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