Disk space usage: how much space do my files take?
What takes up disk space and how to analyze disk usage.
Questions tagged [disk-usage]
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df vs. du: why so much difference?
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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
df says 8.9G used by the partition mounted in /
:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda5 227G 8.9G 207G 5% /
However, a du…
salezica
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How to find free disk space and analyze disk usage?
In CentOS and Ubuntu, how do I find out how much free disk space I have left and other disk stats like disk usage?
Patoshi パトシ
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du gives two different results for the same file
I am a graduate student of computational chemistry with access to a Linux cluster. The cluster consists of a very large (25 TB) fileserver, to which several dozen compute nodes are connected. Each compute node consists of 8 to 24 Intel Xeon cores.…
Andrew
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Analyse disk usage for root partition excluding other partitions that are mounted with GUI program?
I want to check my file usage with programs like https://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/Festplattenbelegung/ for the files on my partitions on which / (root) is on. However, there are many other files systems mounted into the file system somewhere. Those I do…
Make42
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Wrong output of du?
I think my du command is confused.
% du -shc DIR ...
...
6123941496 total
% du -shc DIR ...
...
6.1G total
% du -sc --si DIR ...
...
6.6G total
I've tried giving LANG=C and double-checking the result in a spreadsheet. It looks like -h…
Gerry Lufwansa
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/var partition gets full what's the solution?
If /var partition gets full on Production server then what's the solution ?
Below are my workaround:
If it is LVM Partition then we can extend it online.
We can compress logs.
We can remove old data.
Please suggest me more possible ways to solve…
Rahul Patil
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DU: only show folders at depth
I'm getting output from du -h like the following:
103M ./.wine/drive_c/windows/mono/mono-2.0/lib/mono
103M ./.wine/drive_c/windows/mono/mono-2.0/lib
129M ./.wine/drive_c/windows/mono/mono-2.0
129M ./.wine/drive_c/windows/mono
362M …
EoghanM
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du wrongly reports empty directory
I'm using these commands:
du -sh --apparent-size ./*
du -sh ./*
both reporting:
4.0K ./Lightroom_catalog_from_win_backup
432M ./Lightroom catalog - wine_backup
while those directories contain:
$ll ./"Lightroom catalog -…
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du -s --apparent-size VS du -s
Can someone tell me the differences from:
du -s dir
3705012 dir
du -s --apparent-size dir
3614558 dir
these dirs are inside a block device (created using cryptsetup). Or better: why I need add --apparent-size only with files inside a crypted…
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du -- ignore file not found errors
I'm trying to get the size of a folder an application is currently writing to. If I run the du command it sometimes fails with the error:
du: cannot access `/a/b/a.txt': No such file or directory
because the application deleted the file while du…
Vivek Goel
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du command gives error and result at the same time
I would like to know the disk space of my VPS, and although for folders du works fine as
$ du -sh /home/
325M /var/
But trying to get the entire vps is giving me this result.
[root@user/]# du -sh
du: cannot access…
robue-a7119895
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Why does size and used space in df output contradict available space
Running the following command:
$ df -h
Gives the following output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/md2 91G 85G 1.2G 99% /home
Which means out of the 91 GiB total only 85 GiB are…
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What does "1K-blocks" column mean in the output of `df`?
What does "1K-blocks" column mean in the output of df?
$ df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda7 21181308 19302672 802668 97% /
udev 4070176 4 4070172 1% /dev
tmpfs …
Tim
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Console utility to know how disk space is distributed?
Console utility to know how disk space is distributed.
Something like this:
But with console interface in Linux?
ABTOMAT
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How to determine what process is eating up all available disk space?
Suddenly all the available disk space on / has disappeared.
If I make room in the disk (by deleting ~50GB of stuff, for example), after a few minutes I am back to 0 available disk space (according to df).
Clearly, some process is eating up disk…
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