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No space left on device -- but there is space

I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04.1 server in a VMware virtualized environment that has a strange issue. Twice now, at seemingly random times, the machine has suddenly been unable to write to the root partition despite plenty of space seemingly available.…
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how to make `atop` create less log files?

Currently I have like 3.5GB of atop log files at /var/log/atop/ I do not need that much log data. Files there are as old as 28 days ago. I cannot find a way to configure atop log limit/quota/age. How to lower that disk space usage?
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Web-based disk space visualizer

I have a number of Linux webservers for which I'd like to track where disk space is going and keep disk space to a minimum. Typically I login on SSH and use du to find out where disk space is wasted but this is cumbersome and slow. A visualisation…
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/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root has no more space left?

We have a CentOS machine and the MySQL is not starting due to disk space being full. Below is the df -h results. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root 47G 45G 0 100% / tmpfs …
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Is there a Windows equivalent to the Unix du command?

Possible Duplicates: What are good tools to show disk usage (for Windows)? How to determine a disk consuming service in Windows 2008 server? I am troubleshooting performance on a PC with (running Windows 7) whose hard disk is almost full. I am…
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"Mandatory" free space on a SAN?

I'm not an expert of SANs, I'm writing here to get some clues on continuous and exasperating problems we're having which our supplier seems not to be able to solve. we own an ENHANCE ES3160P4 SAN with 16 x 2 Tb disks that has been supplied for our…
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No space left on device error, but df reports as more space available

My PHP sessions on my Debian webserver using Apache2 with mod_php seem to be failing randomly, saying that there’s no space to write them: sudo tail -60 /var/log/apache2/error.log [Fri Jan 30 15:55:35 2015] [error] [client xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx] PHP…
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Determine if C drive has 2 GB of free disk space

I am trying to determine if a target pc has atleast 2 GB of free space. Here is what I have so far: @echo off for /f "usebackq delims== tokens=2" %%x in (`wmic logicaldisk where "DeviceID='C:'" get FreeSpace /format:value`) do set…
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disk space keeps filling up on EC2 instance with no apperent files/directories

How come os shows 6.5G used but I see only 3.6G in files/directories? Running as root on an Amazon Linux AMI (seems like Centos), lots of free memory available, no swapping going on, no apparent file descriptors issue. The only thing I can think of…
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What's eating my drive space when normal files + hidden + system doesn't equal total drive space used

This is very strange. All directory sizes are normal, and all other folders are within 20GB of what they should be. The discrepancy is that I can’t locate the files that are consuming 150GB of space in the bottom screenshot. Below, I issued…
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After LVM/DRBD resize df is reporting incorrect information

I have a Debian Xen DomU which has a DRBD mounted partition. I needed to resize this partition from 46G to 50G. I did the following: Stopped DRBD on the secondary node: /etc/init.d/drbd stop Increased the underlying LVM dist to 50 GB: lvresize -L…
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centos 100% disk full - How to remove log files, history, etc?

mysqld won't start because disk space is full: 101221 14:06:50 [ERROR] /usr/libexec/mysqld: Error writing file '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.pid' (Errcode: 28) 101221 14:06:50 [ERROR] Can't start server: can't create PID file: No space left on…
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How do you limit the use of network storage in your company?

I think this is one area that is a pain for every sysadmin. Users don't really know how much storage space they are using, and don't take the time to manage what is stored there, or how long it stays around. What policies does your company implement…
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df shows negative values for used?

I have a CentOS 5.2 server and running df -h I get this: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup00-LogVol00 672G -551M 638G 0% / /dev/hda1 99M 12M 82M 13% /boot tmpfs …
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How to see disk usage with less overhead in bash?

du -csh / The above will take huge amount of time to calculate,is there a way to see the less accurate result with less overhead? UPDATE What I want to know is the total size under a specific directory.
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