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Out of Disk Space, /mnt/hgfs to blame?

I'm running a Centos VM in VMWare Fusion 5.x. The VM is running a file transfer server and the files being sent are stored on a disk shared from the host, /mnt/hgfs/Aspera. It looks like the file transfers are taking up space on the root volume. I…
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Linux missing disk space

I have KVM vps with strange disk usage: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb 493G 1.2G 466G 1% / tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% /dev/shm /dev/sda1 96M 41M 51M 45%…
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Ubuntu "No space left on device" for /home, df shows 100% full, ds shows much, much less

Possible Duplicate: Linux different size for df and du for root partition On an Ubuntu 12.04 server, normal users can no longer create or add to files in /home, encountering a "No space left on device" error. The /home directory has a capacity of…
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Can disk space be the reason for a server crash?

After looking into the MySQL error file, I found an error regarding disk space. Now I think its the reason for MySQL crashing: [root@xxxx ~]# cat /var/lib/mysql/xxxx.com.err 120528 17:45:05 [Note] Crash recovery finished. /usr/sbin/mysqld: Disk is…
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Lightweight script for monitoring disk space, ports, etc.?

If I want to monitor some machines that I'm not the primary maintainer of (ie, I don't have access to install packages), are there any lightweight alternatives to things like Nagios? I'm looking for a script (bash, Perl, PHP, etc.) that does basic…
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Space effecient manner to store lots of large, similar files

I have lots of ~1 GB files (database dump files, taken at regular intervals). Right now I'm just storing them all in one directory, each file gzipped. We're running out of disk space and want to continue to store the old ones. Ignoring the obvious…
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Disk Space Monitoring

I have about 70 servers and I need to keep an eye on their disk space usage. I don't need the information to be real time. I was thinking of running a script daily or having a scheduled task run to collect the disk information and save it to a text…
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how to detect a process which is continuosly eating the disk space

on our linux system (suse), one of the partition is nfs-mounted and some process is continuously eating the disk space in it, leaving behind zero bytes to write. How can I figure out this process or daemon which is eating the disk space? Is there…
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Tools for tracking disk usage

I manage a number of linux fileservers. These all run applications written from 0-10 years ago. As sometimes happens, a machine will come close to, or run out of disk space. Reasons include applications not rotating log files, a machine with 500GB…
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Force Windows to recalculate disk size on VM after resizing hard drive

Is there a command line or similar that I can run to force Windows to recalculate disk size on a VM after resizing the hard drive?
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Setting up disk quota on ubuntu for multiple users

I have a separate /home partition with ext4 filesystem. I have about 200 users whose usernames have a common prefix (e.g. 2010...). I have to allot 500 MB space limit (hard limit) for each users home directory. Instead of specifying space one by one…
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How can I find phantom storage usage?

I've got a Mac OS X 10.6.4 Snow Leopard Server file server (AFP) which has been running out of storage space on the boot volume for the past few weeks. It takes about two days for the remaining 42GB on the 80GB boot volume to be eaten up, even…
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How To: Find files affecting your disk quota in Windows server (2003 or 2008)?

Was just wondering if anyone knows a script or tool that can be used to find all the files which affect a user's disk quota in Windows Server 2003/2008. Any suggestions?
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Can I arrange an email to be sent when a drive is nearly full?

Background: I'm a developer who reluctantly "looks after" the machine onto which my application is deployed. My customer is an entirely separate company who pay us to write code for them - we have no bosses in common or anything like that. They have…
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Disk usage metrics missing from Prometheus node exporter

I used Prometheus and node exporter a while ago and had access to node_filesystem_* metrics to monitor disk usage but I've recently fired it up on some other servers (Ubuntu Linux) and those metrics seem to be missing. According to this…
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