For questions related to disk space utilisation.
For questions related to disk space utilisation.
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Native ZFS doesn't free up space when deleting files
I'm running native ZFS on Ubuntu 11.10 with 2x2 TB drives in a mirrored setup. The ZFS file system is mounted directly in Ubuntu and not through NFS or something like that, the permissions are set too 777.
My problem is that when I delete a file it…
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Need to scale an Amazon EC2 instance (but JUST the storage, not the CPU)
I currently have this image:
High-CPU Extra Large Instance (Amazon Linux AMI)
7 GB of memory
20 EC2 Compute Units (8 virtual cores with 2.5 EC2 Compute Units each)
1690 GB of instance storage
64-bit platform
I/O Performance: High
API name:…
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msizap.exe reports No product/patch data was found
I was trying to free up some space on my Windows 7 machine and was directed to a utility called msizap.exe from Microsoft which removes orphaned msi's from the c:\windows\installer directory. My Installer directory is 12Gb on a 1 year old…
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ubuntu server slowly filling up
We had our samba server (ubuntu 8.04 ltr) share fill up the other day but when I went to look at it I cant see any of the shares have to much on them
we have 5 group shares
and then each users has an individual share
one users has 22gigs of stuff a…
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Does the ReFS filesystem reserve space for itself?
I recently formatted a single disk from the line of new 14TB Seagates on Windows 10 with ReFS, with a 4K block size, to use the full capacity available and noticed that out of the approximately 12.7TB it presents as usable that it already reports…
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is it safe to delete /var/spool/mail/root
There is a specific server in the company I work that uses sendmail to send multiple emails to sendgrid. The file /var/spool/mail/root is about 4.9 GB, which is taking more than 50% of the disk usage. Now, is it safe to just delete it? or do a
cp…
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Unexpected space consumption
I have a problem. I run out of disk space all the time. I don't know exactly what files consume all the space. It seems that there are bunch of little files, so it's hard to find with du command. Every time I find something to get rid of to gain…
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Why does "apt-get autoremove sendmail" leave dependencies behind?
I have noticed that installing sendmail, then uninstalling it, using apt-get will leave many unwanted files behind.
sudo apt-get install sendmail
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following…
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du -sh * show significant more used space that ls -lah
I am having trouble with running out of diskspace of one of my clients servers.
The output of the commands ls -lah in /var/lib/mysql shows:
drwx------ 2 mysql mysql 16K Dec 30 2015 database_xyz
But when I check the filesize in the same catalogue…
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Server disk full after upgrade from Ubuntu 14.10 to 15.10
I upgraded an older server from 13.10 -> 14.04 -> 14.10 -> 15.10 yesterday. Today I'm seeing that 100% of the disk space is being used but I can't track down where the usage is.
When I run du -h --max-depth=1 / I get the following log which seems to…
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How to enable space reclamation from KVM guest to ZFS zvol iSCSI target?
I have a ZFS volume "tank/kvm/webhosting", exposed through iSCSI (using tgt) to KVM guest.
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No space left on device - wrong size
I'm running an FreeBSD dedicated server. I am getting messages that I have ran out of space on the device. df -h is saying that I have no space left but du -sh /* doesn't even show the directiories with a size that the df -h is showing.
df -h…
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Near 100% disk usage, df and du show very different results, lsof not the answer
The issue is that my CentOS 5.8 machine is telling me that I am nearly out of disk space when I am pretty confident this is not the case. I've done a fair amount of researching on this issue and have been unable to find a solution.
'df -h' shows…
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Best practice disk usage for SQL Server
I've been reading that it is best practice to place the following on separate disks for performance and safety:
tempdb
database file
log file
backup files
When you consider RAID using multiple disks this becomes an enormous amount of physical…
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Ran out of disk space, how to tar without creating copy
I am at 98% of an 8GB SSD, and I have a 3 GB mysql data that I need to gzip and or tar and then download it, so then I can delete it.
How can I tar or gzip the sql (or the mysql tables) so that that I don't have to make a copy of the 3GB file and…
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