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MySQL general_log.CSV is 47GB in Production – How to Free Space?
I’m managing a production MySQL server running on a VM, and I just discovered that the general_log.CSV file in /var/lib/mysql/mysql/ has grown to 47GB, consuming almost 70% of the disk space.
Here’s ...
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`du` reports wildly different sizes for the same folder depending on arguments [duplicate]
While working on a Seafile server migration, I noticed my rsync of the data took quite a bit longer than I calculated it should. I ended up noticing that some of the directories were already bigger on ...
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What's filling /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv if mounted on /, but total size shows only part of the used space?
I have an issue with a virtual machine running Nextcloud. The version is Ubuntu 22.04 LTS.
The system continuously indicates that the logical volume /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv is full (used 100%...
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Rsync backup is almost twice as big as source
I'm using rsync to back up my home directory:
time rsync -iia --append-verify --progress --exclude cloudDrive/ /home /usr/local/share/applications /etc/yum.repos.d /home/user/cloudDrive/Backups/"...
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du fails to show size of home directory
du -sh $HOME
gets stuck when running. This is the last few lines of output:
du: cannot access '/home/user/.local/share/waydroid/data/media/0/DCIM/Camera': Permission denied
du: cannot access '/home/...
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How to check how much space is free in the current working directory?
How to check how much space is free in the current working directory on a Linux system?
I have a filesize file which contains 1073741824 which is the amount of disk space in bytes that is needed.
I ...
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No space left on device when building Docker image
I am trying to build a Docker image, but got an error like:
make: *** [slave.mk:1119: target/docker-lldp.gz] Error 1
mkdir: cannot create directory './target/versions/build/log-20240530215300': No ...
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Find ever growing file(s) held by open process filling disk to 100%
I have linux server which has started filling up the root disk to 100% in the last few days.
df -h shows 100% and any file write attempts fail stating disk is full.
du -sh of the drives contents show ...
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How to clean up a Linux system to free up disk space?
What are some generic ways to free up lots of storage space without deleting personal files?
I'm doing a distro upgrade (Debian11->12) and it needs lots of disk space on the root partition / which ...
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How to anticipate the time before disk space would be close to exhaustion?
I have a task to make alerts if there's free disk space for only 2 hours for dinamycally growing directory.
Honestly I don't know what's the best way to it.
I'm not sure if the space will grow ...
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Partition size differ in fdisk and df by 240 GB. why?
I have a 4 TB Seagate Drive. Apart from 22 GiB of other partitions, there rest is for sda1.
The Problem? I miss about 240 GiB of sda1! I can't see where it is.
whole sda1 partition has a filesystem in ...
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Working out if inodes are responsible for low disk space
I am running out of disk space on my CENTOS 7.9 server.
When I type the command
sudo df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 436G 405G 9.0G 98% /
When I type the ...
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Why are there missing commands on some manpages? [closed]
Early on in my Linux journey, I found some manpages to be lacking. One example is that on Fedora 37, I forgot the command to display the total filesize of all files in a directory. I knew it involved ...
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Can't write to Live CD system
I am not new to Linux, but am new to creating my own virtual machine environment. I am using Linux to learn how to do penetration testing, and have been required to download lots of different software ...
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LVM Device-mapper (dm-2) 100% busy
We have set up LVM stripping across 06 disk in our DB server for improving IOPS performance.
However during heavy load, it has been observed that device-mapper dm-2 asscociated with these 6 disks is ...
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