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Figuring out why I'm going over hard-drive quota

I suck at system administration, so if I'm getting something basic wrong, please let me know. Here is something that drives me nuts. At work, we have a big NFS server that serves all the employees of our company. Everyone has a certain number of…
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How can I eliminate the huge, cached MSI files in C:\Windows\Installer?

The size of the MSI cache folder (C:\Windows\Installer) has grown substantially, and is now taking up way too much disk space on my (domain) computers. Can this folder be eliminated or shrunk? Same question goes for: C:\WINDOWS\WinSxS…
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XFS Adding Quotas - Skip Quota check on first mount/boot

We run a 14TB XFS fileserver on our cluster and want to add quota support. This is running 3.9.2-1.el6.elrepo.x86_64 kernel under CentOS 6.3 (Final). The issue is when we unmount the XFS RAID, and re-mount it adding quota support, the mount command…
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Determining disk space usage & file counts for extremely large data sets (any tricks?)

Long time reader, first time asker: I'm a junior-level Linux admin who's increasingly supporting very large data sets/stores on local & NFS storage. The data is generally in the form of massive folder & file trees with arbitrary names. To give an…
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Linux disk usage analyser that acts like symlinks are real files

I am using git-annex, an extension to the DVCS git, which is designed for handling large files. It makes heavy use of symlinks. The actual large files are moved to the .git/annex directory and the original files are symlinked to there. I am running…
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linux - disk space missing

# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 9.9G 7.2G 2.2G 77% / # du -hx --max-depth=0 / 3.2G / As you can see, df says 7.2GB is used, but du can only find 3.2GB of it. The server has been rebooted…
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Email when Linux server disk is full?

How can I set up an email notification on a Linux server for when a disk/volume exceeds a certain usage quota?
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How do MyISAM and InnoDB Utilize HD Space?

My MySQL server is running out of HD space fast. Most of my larger tables use the InnoDB engine (for no mission-critical reason). In an effort to avoid the dreaded 'drop database to recover innodb disk-space' response, I'd like to better understand…
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OSSEC disk space usage

A few days ago I noticed that the disk of my Ubuntu server was almost full. I dug a bit and found out that the disk space was used by OSSEC, in the /var/ossec/queue/diff folder. I wanted to try something immediate so I deleted the contents of this…
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"Write Error: No space left on device" when df displays 60% of free space?

It's been happening for the last few weeks in a small unix server (it doesn't have all standard unix commands, just the basics included in the BusyBox package) that I was configuring to backup files. If we check the free space of the server it…
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mkdir: "no space left on device" on specific folders after Apache Tomcat reached max-file ulimit

The question: I have a tomcat running a java application that occasionally accumulates socket handles and reaches the ulimit we configured (both soft and hard) for max-open-files, which is 100K. When this happens, the java appears to still be alive,…
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Understanding PostgreSQL disk usage

I'm using 9.1 and have a table called dpi in a database with UTF-8 encoding currently sitting at 18,628 rows. There's a TEXT column in there called foto that holds B64 strings which represent a unique image file. I'm trying to figure out how much…
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Win2k3: What files can be deleted from the System drive, and what tool to delete them?

The strategic question is "How do I maximize free space on the System drive," and includes such things as disk compression, changing the TEMP environment variable, removing the hibernation file, minimizing the swap file, buying a larger drive, etc. …
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Windows XP shows low disk space - WinDirStat shows 50GB entry

We run 12 Dell Optiplex 755 desktop computers. All of them have the exact same hardware and softawre, configured exactly the same. As such, they are all: running Windows XP on the same network denied access to the internet running with Windows…
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How do I view the size of a mount point drive on 2008R2?

The size column tells me the capacity of the drive but not the amount of disk used. How do I determine how much data is on a mount point in 2008 R2? Any GUI or powershell command is fine.
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