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32 questions linked to/from Tracking down where disk space has gone on Linux?
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I have 20GB for my Mint-KDE 18 root partition. There is no extra home partition. I am doing nothing special, just Chrome, KRDC, Teamviewer and the partition was half empty. One thing I did was copying ...
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I'm running Redhat 6.6 and experienced a power failure over the holiday weekend. The / partition is showing 100% full. How do I check to see which files are actually causing the overusage? [root@...
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This error recently appeared on my Raspberry Pi. I get this error when I try to autocomplete folder paths. It won't autocomplete commands at all. I don't get this error when I'm logged in as root. ...
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My disk is almost full, how can I know where takes away the most disk? Because yesterday the disk is enough for my System. [root@ha-node1 log]# df -lh Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted ...
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How do I get some space back? I have no space. Edit: Clarification, I did run at least a few different Conda environments, could then be the source of this tmpfs files ? Filesystem Size Used ...
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I restarted the MySQL server by pressing the "restart" button inside CWP web panel and the server stopped working and gave me this error. Warning: mysqli_connect(): (HY000/2002): Too many ...
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How can my 6 TB hdd display as full while there's 3,4 TB of files on there? It says 0 bytes available for some reason.
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My title may not be the best so I will try to explain it. I am using an old computer (more than 10y) with a ubuntu style distro. It has a lot of independent partitions. I recently had an alert telling ...
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I tried to obtain the size of a directory (containing directories and sub directories) by using the ls command with option l. It seems to work for files (ls -l file name), but if I try to get the size ...
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How do you sort du -sh /dir/* by size? I read one site that said use | sort -n but that's obviously not right. Here's an example that is wrong. [~]# du -sh /var/* | sort -n 0 /var/mail 1.2M /...
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I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the ...
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The answers provided to this question doesn't help. I'ved tried yum install ncdu But I'm getting No package ncdu available
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[Note: This similar Q concerns the same bash error message. It's been marked a duplicate of this other Q. But because I found a very different source for this error, I will answer my own Q below.] ...
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What's a single command I can run that shows me the total amount of space free on a hard drive? I don't want to do any math, I just want a command that shows me the total free space on my hard drive.
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I am using Debian. df -h shows me that I'm using around 275GB: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on rootfs 315G 274G 26G 92% / udev ...
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