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Do file systems exist which can intelligently handle redundant blocks for saving disk space and instantaneous copying?

If I have a very large contiguous file in the gigabytes that I want to copy, my disk has to allocate all of the necessary space and write a duplicate of every block. Why can't a copy be "fast" in a sense that it instead copies references to the…
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Windows7: No disk usage in status bar?

I am trying out Windows 7 RC, and one thing annoys me a bit. In windows XP (Can't remember how it was in Vista...) when browsing folders I could see how much free space I had on the disk in the status bar. On Windows 7, all I see is how many items…
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Force initialization of dynamically expanding VHDX

Let's say we have 64GB of Dynamically Expanding VHDX. After installing the OS, the "dynamically initialized" space is something around 10GB. Now, I know that I'm gonna need about 25GB more space - e.g. a total of 35GB. QUESTION: How can I force the…
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zfs wrong space usage

I have a backup server with ZFS (Ubuntu 16.04; 32GB RAM, 4x6TB HDD, raidz2). Recently I've found the problem with space available. # zpool list -v NAME SIZE ALLOC FREE EXPANDSZ FRAG CAP DEDUP HEALTH ALTROOT pool 21.6T 19.9T 1.76T …
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ASP.NET Temporary files taking up too much space

I have approximately 900 applications running on the server where each one points to a folder that contains content that is about 215MB in size. When I noticed that my server's hard drive was almost full, I did a scan with WinDirStat and found the…
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rapidly filling disk: how to understand what's happening?

I have a org.apache.solr.hadoop.MapReduceIndexerTool/MorphlineMapper process that fills the local '/' mount. It runs for a few minutes, the disk fills, Nagios alerts get triggered, and then I kill the process. Once the process is killed, the file…
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Linux showing wrong disk space used, du -h -x / | sort -hr has different space

If I type: df -h It shows me 12G used. But If I use this command: du -h -x / | sort -hr >> /home/log_size.txt This will give me: If I sum /usr + /var + /root, this won't give me about 12G used... So where can I find the other files that are…
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-bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device

I'm getting following error while doing tab, tab inside of shell: -bash: cannot create temp file for here-document: No space left on device root@alexus:~# cat /etc/issue.net Ubuntu 14.04.3 LTS root@alexus:~# uname -a Linux alexus 3.13.0-57-generic…
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ZFS on a single external HDD drive: setup / tutorial and workflow

There are many tutorials on ZFS but I couldn't find a single one which covers the changes in commands when one uses only a single drive. I know by now that the parameter copies=2 is used but what changes in the other commands and how do the workflow…
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Disk Space full while doing apt-get operation on Ubuntu 14.04

Im Trying to install new software on my Ubuntu 14.04, which is running $ uname -r 3.13.0-45-generic There are old kernals installed on my machine $ dpkg --list | grep linux-image rc linux-image-3.13.0-24-generic 3.13.0-24.47 …
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df shows bad information on partition usage

I've tried to deal with this for days now with no luck. In this forum and also in other ones I can see a lot of discussion about this but none of the solutions have worked for me. My current situation is that I've got some GBs "missing" that I can't…
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Leave only the Server and Client files in a mysql installed manually on windows

I am a php developer and I'm setting up a portable development environment on windows 7. I downloaded the version of mysql "NonInstall Zip Archive" and is working properly. However, I see that occupies over 1GB in size !! I imagine that to run and…
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Windows 2008 - 40 GB inaccessible space, used by system. Where?

i created a copy of the system in a VMWare Virual Machine (v7), size is 7.11 Go compressed, 70 Go uncompressed (sorry system is in french !) log in: adminstrateur & password:…
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How can I monitor disk usage / growth on Windows Server 2008

I would like to monitor the file growth on my server, I want to be able to see how much data is being taken up over time. This way I can calculate when to upgrade disk space or budget for new equipment based on data usage. Thanks for your help.
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How to increase KVM guest disk size using LVM VG as storage pool?

The KVM host server is running CentOS 6.5 and a LVM volume group "storage_pool" is used as the main storage pool for KVM. An Ubuntu guest is installed using an ext4 filesystem and mounts the whole /dev/vda1 as /. This is the guest disk…
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