Questions tagged [disk-space-utilization]

For questions related to disk space utilisation.

For questions related to disk space utilisation.

602 questions
-1
votes
3 answers

Why are we constantly told, "There's a disk space issue"?

This morning, I was helping a BA with a particularly complicated report. I notice that in the reporting Development environment, we were only seeing a single day of data. Not only that, but the day is from a period of time where the data, itself,…
IVR Avenger
  • 325
  • 1
  • 5
  • 16
-2
votes
1 answer

SSD disks VS SATA disks and SAS disks

as all know there are many type of disks while the famous are SSD disks SATA disks SAS disks dose SATA/SAS disks can be nearly as SSD disks? about IO and performance? how much SSD disks are better from the SATA/SAS disk
shalom
  • 461
  • 13
  • 29
-2
votes
1 answer

Setting Low Disk Space Alerts on Windows Server 2008 for specific partition

Based on this question, I need a similair solution for myself (I used Mark Pettibone's answer), however I want to limit it to only specific partitions. I imagine I have to use something different for the source instead of srv, but I have no idea…
user451500
-2
votes
1 answer

limit disk space used by vps

I got a VPS on Debian and I often tend to run into an issue with disk space. I got a huge error log generated or a huge backup etc and I max out the disk space and that causes mysql to stop working. How can I limit my vps disk usage to say, 90%?…
-2
votes
1 answer

Nagios alert by email for WARNING

I want to set Nagios up to issue warnings (e.g. mildly high disk usage of clients) via email. I'm new to nagios core, so please assist me to achieve this. what changes I have to make in config files like contacts.cfg, services.cfg, commands.cfg and…
Rahul
  • 67
  • 1
  • 12
-2
votes
1 answer

>11GB free space, but it says 100% disk usage?

$ df -i /mnt/large_linux/ Filesystem Inodes IUsed IFree IUse% Mounted on /dev/sda1 29376512 1035086 28341426 4% /mnt/large_linux $ df /mnt/large_linux/ Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 …
A T
  • 397
  • 1
  • 4
  • 15
-2
votes
2 answers

df showing 28G of total space, du showing size of '/' as 400+ G

I constantly get the unable to write to * error, even though I cleaned up a bunch of space. df thinks my disk is 28G in size and 100% full after I deleted a lot of unused files: $ df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 …
Goro
  • 664
  • 3
  • 9
  • 18
-2
votes
3 answers

Sharing disk space between two Ubuntu hosts

I have two Digital Ocean droplets (Ubuntu 14.04 LTS VPS instances): Alice: 40GB disk / 38GB used Bob: 20GB disk / 2GB used Alice’s storage needs will continue to grow slowly but steadily. Rather than bumping Alice up to a more expensive image, is…
Ryan
  • 81
  • 1
  • 8
-2
votes
1 answer

Centos , /dev/root is getting full. Cannot find disk space usage

First of all I am not a sysadmin and so this is all new for me. Running on :CENTOS 6.4 x86_64 , Cpanel/WHM 11.36.1 (build 6) Problem : My root disk is getting full but I cannot find the files that are causing this. #df -h Filesystem Size …
Paolo_NL_FR
  • 155
  • 1
  • 2
  • 4
-2
votes
2 answers

how to limit directory size without quota (vserver)?

Hope the question is not too general. As I have a vserver (Ubuntu 12.04) I cannot restrict the size of directories by using quotas. I wonder if there are other possibilities to achieve this. The only method I could imagine would be a combination of…
32bitfloat
  • 253
  • 2
  • 3
  • 10
-2
votes
1 answer

Alfresco couldn't start. Why?

I have alfresco on my VM. When I try to start alfresco I got an error "postgresql could not be started" such as following : /opt/alfresco/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh : postgresql could not be started Using CATALINA_BASE: /opt/alfresco/tomcat Using…
-3
votes
2 answers

How to find who is using disk space

I have 2 disk on my vps one is 40 GB and other is 80 GB, today I see my 40GB disk is 100% full, I cant understand what is using that space. here is full info [root@topsites]# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 …
Mi2
  • 13
  • 4
-3
votes
2 answers

How to find where my Disk Space has gone

I have a Windows Server 2012 R2. I have 500GB from 2 SSD drives. I currently have 7GB disk space. I have ran CCleaner but there was no change. I keep only the main files on the disks and I had a good 50GB of disk space free awhile ago. Is there a…
-4
votes
1 answer

What capacities should have a hosting to support an average of 1000 registered users simultaneously?

How much RAM, Disk Space, Bandwidth, etc would be needed? It's just and aproximate. I have no idea how to do a real implementation of a web service and I'm not going to, but I have to write a SRS (software requeriments specifications) and I need to…
-5
votes
1 answer

Windows 2008R2 reporting low disk space - 500mb

I have a server reporting very critically low diskspace. I have three 1TB drives with installed and I would appreciate some advice on remedying this issue. I am considering using a Spanned Disk as a single logical drive is this advisable client…
Xdrone
  • 101
1 2 3
40
41