Questions tagged [diskspace]

Issues relating to availability of disk space.

Questions using this tag are expected to be related to handling disk space issues, regardless of language and system.

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Docker changing /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff location

Docker folder /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff grows too much and I would like to move it on an other partition. Is there a way to configure Docker to use another location for this foder?
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Finding out total and free disk space in .NET

I am trying to find a way to determine the total and available disk space in an arbitrary folder from a .NET app. By "total disk space" and "available disk space" in a folder I refer to the total and available disk space that this folder would…
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Amazon Elastic Block Store and EC2 drive

I am fairly new with AWS(just have a free AWS EC2 instance to test out AWS stuff) so the question might sound silly. Today I got a mail that my Amazon Elastic Block Storeage has reached 85% usage on my free AWS account which is about 25 GB of the…
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Amazon EC2 and EBS disk space problem

I am having a problem reconciling the space available on my EBS volume. According to the AWS console the volume is 50GB and is attached to an instance. If I ssh to this instance and do a df -h, I get the following output: Filesystem Size…
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My Xcode installation is taking up loads of space; how to reduce space used by simulators?

So my computer is the base model MacBook Pro so hard drive space is a premium. I've been looking through folders to find what's taking up all the space and my UserName/Library/Developer folder was 30GB. This folder contains Xcode &…
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Hudson Free Temp Space location

I have just installed Hudson on a Weblogic server and I am having issues with the nodes going off line due to the Free Temp Space falling below the 1gig threshold. Now I have checked my /tmp folder (thinking Hudson uses that) but it is sitting at…
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TFS Branching and Disk Space

I've been thinking over some branching strategies (creating branches per feature, maybe per developer since we're a small group) and was wondering if anyone had experienced any issues. Does creating a branch take up much space?
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/System/Volumes/Data is taking too much space on Mac OS Catalina

One of my hosts runs on Mac OS Catalina, and it constantly runs out of disk space... I have scheduled tasks running there and every day it uploads files into /Users/labuser/myfolder and removes older files from that folder. After digging through…
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How do you reclaim disk space after adding an alternate in git?

I have a git working directory and have added to .git/objects/info/alternates so that this working directory does not need to store duplicate data that's already in another working directory on my machine. (This is what git clone…
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How should I clean up the launchd StandardOutput or StandardError logs?

I've got a program that runs as a launchd agent, and I have stdout and stderr sent to a log file using the StandardErrorPath and StandardOutputPath keys. I'm quite keen on having stdout/stderr logged somewhere, and it seems like having launchd set…
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How to reduce Android sdk size on hard disk

Though hard disk is cheap these days, ssd is still expensive. My Android SDK is taking something like 14Go. I have installed apis 19,20 and 21, and each is taking around some valuable space (21 uses 9Go!) in the system-images/ folder. Is there some…
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Fill up disk space in android device

I want to fill my device disk space with any dump data as part of stress testing. I tried writing bytes into a file in external storage; obviously larger & more spacious the disk is longer it will take to get filled. [approx half a minute for…
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why my mongodb fileSize is much bigger than storageSize in db.stats()?

I have a db named log_test1, with only 1 capped collection logs. The max size of capped collection is 512M. After I inserted 200k data, I found the disk usage of the db is 1.6G. With db.stats(), I can see the storageSize is 512M, correct, but my…
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Git disk usage per branch

Do you know if there is a way to list the space usage of a git repository per branch ? (like df or du would) By "the space usage" for a branch I mean "the space used by the commits which are not yet shared accross other branches of the repository".
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Unicorn Eating Memory

I have a m1.small instance in amazon with 8GB hard disk space on which my rails application runs. It runs smoothly for 2 weeks and after that it crashes saying the memory is full. App is running on rails 3.1.1, unicorn and nginx I simply dont…
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