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Root filesystem is completely full [closed]
everyone.
I have a completely filled root filesystem, but I can't figure out what it is.
sudo df -h /
/dev/nvme0n1p2 49G 49G 0 100% /
sudo du -h --max-depth=1 --exclude="media" --...
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My disk is 244.5GB of 258GB full and I don't know what is taking up all the space
I recently resolved a login loop on my Linux Mint machine caused by my drive being full. I have successfully cleaned out 31.2GB of data by running standard cleaning commands and by removing all my ...
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Why is there a 12GB+ disparity between (almost) same capacity drives with (almost) same content?
I have 2 drives (different brands) of approx. 2TB each. One holds video files for my home media server while the other is a mirror. While there is a small actual size disparity, a small amount of ...
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How to check how much space is available on block device disk (e.g not used on partition)
I have multiple block devices: e.g sda (sda1, sda2 & sda3).
sda3 is further divided into LVMs which all has a X amount of space on them. However, I want to be able to list how much space is ...
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Move disk space from /dev/sda3 to /dev/sda4
This is my current setup:
Disk /dev/sda: 546.8 GiB, 587127480320 bytes, 1146733360 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
I/O size (minimum/...
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Disk full after deleting large files and rebooting
I accidentally filled up my hard drive and I cannot recover from it.
I've deleted several Gigabyte of files, but the df command still shows that the disk is full, and even a simple echo hello > ...
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what does %util mean in iostat command output? if it is 100%, can we add more workload on it?
recently I was asked this question during a phone interview. I know that iostat command can be used to check disk performance in Linux. But I am not sure how to answer this question. Does this mean ...
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Constant hdd write but iotop shows nothing
The disk activity monitor widget in KDE (Debian) shows constant HDD write around 12 MiB/s, when I run iotop, there is nothing that would be constantly using HDD. When I run atop, at first PAG is red ...
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linux raspberry OS disk full but different df and ncdu giga count
I have a raspberrypi 3b+, with 32gb sdcard.
As you can see, /dev/root is about 28GB and df -h command says that / is full.
sudo ncdu instead shows different results.
Excluding media (that is a ...
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How to know the suffix of size in lvcreate
I've to create a new volume group of 5G with lvcreate but the disk don't have enough space disk :
lvcreate -n lv_new -L5G VGroup
Volume group "VGroup" has insufficient free space (1279 ...
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Checking Remaining Disk Space Linux
How to display all connected usb devices on a centos 7 machine showing remaining disk space?
I have tried lsblk but that does not show free disk space ...
lsblk
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Why /usr and /home size is very small even tough I gave /home and / (root) enaugh size?
My concern is about /usr and home size as you see.
Home:
Root:
My concern is about /usr and home size as you see.
It seems that they have really small space, but when I was installing ubuntu I gave ...
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Print disk space with df, with headers, but only one particular row
I have the following df -h output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
dev 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev
run 7,8G 1,8M 7,8G 1% /run
/dev/nvme0n1p5 93G 40G ...
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How to calculate disk usage filtering by pattern (e.g., *.JPG)?
How can I calculate disk space consumed only by some files of a directory recursively?
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I see the sizes of the files on a disk incorrectly
Running services are filling up disk space. I reboot it frees up disk space. How can I find files created by programs in disk space but not visible with the "du -ch /.[!.]* /disk1" command.
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