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how to find files that bloats a specific partition? [duplicate]
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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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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What could be the source of drastically different disk usage reports between df, lsblk and baobab?
Disk Usage Analyzer (baobab) reports a size of 29.3 GB for the root partition, out of which 2.5 GB are available:
However, when selecting that device for
closer inspection, I am presented with only 7....
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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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How to increase the disk space for /root from /home on SLES SP4?
Currently I am unable to run or install anything on SLES SP4 system because insufficient space in /root. Could you please suggest a way to increase the disk space for /root from /home on SLES SP4?
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How do I find out which partitions my filesystems (and mount points) are on, and how full the partitions are?
This question is essentially the opposite of the first question below, and adjacently related to the second question, and is therefore not a duplicate:
Ask Ubuntu: How do I find out what filesystem ...
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I increased VM storage from Virtual Media Manager in VBox but it is not applied in VM
Here is how I increased the storage of the VM in the VBox interface:
I used Virtual Media Manager.
When I click Information:
Format: VDI
Storage details: Dynamically allocated
Using the suggestion, ...
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revert logical partitions to original disk
I have a disk that somehow split into what appear to be logical partitions, but I am unsure. How to revert to the original disk?
Here is the list of drives shown by fdisk -l:
/dev/mmcblk0
/dev/...
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I installed archlinux through the automatic script and formatted my drive and removed everything from it but it is only 20.8 gb
So I installed Arch Linux through the automatic script and formatted my drive and removed everything from it, but it is only 20.8 GB my file system is ext4, and I am sure that I wiped everything from ...
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How to determine what is occupying hard disk space? [duplicate]
I have a primary SSD with all my stuff and a 2nd hard drive where I install my games. The SSD has a 120 GB capacity. Until recently, only ~20GB has been used, but something has happened and now 87GB ...
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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 ...
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Size discrepancy between df -h output and lsblk output [duplicate]
When I run df -h and lsblk, on my Ubuntu 20.04.3 LTS Oracle Cloud instance, there is a discrepancy between sizes of my /dev/sda1 mount. I am not sure if this has to do with GiB vs GB or something else....
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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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Created a new volume on a 10TB (9.1TiB) hard drive, getting conflicting information regarding free space!
gparted reports 74GB used and 9.02TiB available (seems reasonable).
df reports 40MB used, but only shows 8.6TiB available (suddenly 425 GiB missing)
Disk Info in the file manager reports similar to df,...
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