Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Windows 10 lost about 60 GB after two System Restore operations, but shadow storage shows minimal usage – where did the space go?
After performing two System Restore operations on Windows 10 Pro 22H2, my system drive (C:) lost more than 60 GB of free space (about 30 GB per restore).
However, I cannot determine what is occupying ...
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Why is it that since yesterday, 7 GB has disappeared from my hard drive? [duplicate]
I have Windows 10. Since yesterday, 7 GB has disappeared from my hard drive, even though I haven’t downloaded or installed anything new.
What could this be? What should I do about it?
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Can I delete ProgramData Aruba Networks Via?
My hard drive is desperately low on disk space, so I really need to delete stuff.
Searching for something big and maybe delete-able, I found C:\ProgramData\Aruba Networks\VIA
It's taking up 77.6 GB, ...
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What is constantly taking space on my computer?
My Windows 11 shows 0 MB of free space on drive C. I have set the option to show the hidden and system files on drive C. I select all (Ctrl+A) on drive C and check the properties and see the total ...
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What is causing my HDD to be missing 3 TB of usable space on my Windows 10 Pro machine?
I have an 8 TB hard drive in my Windows 10 Pro machine (3 years old). It has always reported 7.27 TB, which is normal.
Last I checked (a couple of weeks ago), the drive was just over half full. Today ...
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Why does Paragon hard disk manager refuse to use full disk for partition? Missing 380GB
I finally managed to save up to upgrade from 4x4TB drives (in two separate RAID 1s) to just two 18TB in RAID 1. I copied the partitions from each RAID 1 to the new RAID 1 since that works the quickest ...
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Restore 5TB of proxmox VM raw disks to 1TB disk
Before reinstalling Proxmox 8.3, I copied all the files in the /var/lib/pvelocal-btrfs folder and backed up my virtual machines to a 5TB external hard drive formatted in NTFS.
Originally, the current ...
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Huge file sizes/huge amount of space taken up when I drag and drop MP3s into Audacity (200 MB to 10GB+) - how to prevent that?
When I drag and drop MP3s (about 200 MB) into Audacity, Audacity somehow takes up a huge amount of hard-disk space (10GB+).
(This though is temporary. Once I've exited Audacity and not saved the "...
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How to increase the available space of /home directory?
I was given a CentOS 9 Linux distribution server inside a virtual machine to whom I can connect using ssh protocol (from command line). I am running svn checkout command in order to clone a remote ...
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Why do many hard disks have slightly more space available than the labeled capacity?
First, take a look at this 300 GB SAS drive:
=== START OF INFORMATION SECTION ===
Vendor: SEAGATE
Product: ST300MM0006
Revision: LS0A
Compliance: SPC-4
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Should I defrag an external exFAT HDD?
1. How do I defrag an exFAT HDD (not SSD) in a Windows environment?
I know how to do a defrag for other drive formats, but not exFAT. I am aware you can copy everything off the drive to another drive, ...
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How to increase a partition on a Raspberry Pi without deleting the content?
Given the disk space on my Raspberry Pi was too small, I moved from a 32 GB SD card to a 128 GB SD card on my Raspberry Pi 5. Therefore, I cloned the old card to the new one using:
sudo dd if=/dev/...
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How to recover disk space used by Microsoft Teams installation by Windows 11 24H2 update?
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Microsoft's Windows 11 24H2 update includes a mandatory forced installation of Microsoft Teams. Aside from the fact that this may constitute anti-competitive behaviour, there seems to be no ...
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How to fix APFS errors that Disk First Aid isn't fixing? ("descendants of dir-stats object is greater than expected")
This is occurring on an M1 MacBook Pro 2021, macOS Sequoia 15.1.1.
I've seen some warnings/errors running disk first aid through Disk Utility. I see the same errors running it from the command line. I ...
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Is there a way to display icons on Hard Links, similar to how there's a blue arrow for Junctions?
If you manually create a test directory. Then cd into it and type the following:
echo Test > test.txt
mkdir TempTesting
cd TempTesting
mklink /H linkTest.txt "../test.txt"
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