Questions tagged [disk-usage]
Disk space usage: how much space do my files take?
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How to show directory sizes in tree format with correct values and depth control
I can't solve what I want using the tree, du, or df commands. I'm using: du version 9.6 tree version 2.2.1 What I want: For the current directory, list all directories recursively to a depth of 3, ...
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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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Kodi on Ubuntu Studio filled disk, somewhere?
Apologies in advance if there is an existing answer I should consult... Fired up Kodi for the first time on my Ubuntu Studio 24.04 box. It has a 1 TB hard drive, of which almost half is consumed by ...
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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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How can I install TeXLive bbm.sty without the full 3 GB install?
I have a fairly large (~ 1 GB) texlive install on Ubuntu 24 LTS: $ apt list --installed | grep texlive WARNING: apt does not have a stable CLI interface. Use with caution in scripts. texlive-base/...
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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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No space left on device but only 50% space and 1% inodes used
This is on a Iomega IX200 NAS which had been expanded to 4TB disks from the original 2TB. It all looks good. But when I try to save data to a new file I get the "No space left on device error&...
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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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Interruptible disk usage tallies for users?
I want to obtain, for every one of my system's users (or at least, every one with a home directory under /home), the amount of disk space their files use. I have root access, but - there are many ...
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Adding up sizes of directories using bash is inconsistent
First, I got the total size of folder /my-downloads: $ du -sh /my-downloads 304G /my-downloads As you can see, it's 304G. Then, I wanted to find out the total size of all immediate directories ...
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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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df and du reports vastly different results [duplicate]
I understand that this question has been asked before. But I couldn't find a very satisfactory answer, so asking again here, sorry. So my root filesystem is ext3, df shows there is only 3.7G left. but ...
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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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NFS free space indication missing on Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon
I am running Linux Mint 22 Cinnamon with my DS923+ NAS mounted after login by clicking on it, full details here, only slightly changed since then, but the options and mount process are still the same ...
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Report IEC Prefixed Sizes from Commands Like ls
In a GNOME terminal with a bash shell, is there a convenient way to have commands like ls and du output human readable sizes using IEC prefixes. Looking at the man page for ls, it looks like they are ...
