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df and where a folder is mounted
I have linux system. When I do df I get something like Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on .... some data here /dev/mmcblk0pyy yyy yyy 0 100% / /dev/mmcblk0pxx ...
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Efficiently using file system in linux
This is the current state of my disk at present , how can I use the unused space or move stuff to free up space , without formatting or loosing data Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Can't copy files to folder due to space issue after mand mount
I tried doing mandatory mount using the following the command mount -t tmpfs -o mand,size=1m tmpfs ./FileLockFail/ Now when I am trying to copy a folder to the mounted directory, its giving me error ...
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Determine available space on bind mount from inside a Docker container
I have an application inside a Docker container running Debian that has a feature that can import a lot of big files. The application stores the files in a folder on the host that is accessible via a ...
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Why is there a discrepancy in the size shown by df and du for a mounted google drive storage account?
I am using cp to copy directories from a mounted google drive storage account to disk. I need to find out the total size of all directories to be copied from google drive to disk to know the amount of ...
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How do I deal with /dev/xvda1 mounted on / usage full problem?
OS: Ubuntu 18.04 As I did a "df -h", it shows that my "/dev/xvda1" is 100% full. I cannot even do a "tab" to list all folders/files under current directory. ( I got a &...
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Raspberry PI Mounting / and /backupdrive on different drives does not work
I followed this guide to turn my raspberry pi into my backup server. It has a 16 GB SD Card in it and Raspbian (based on Debian buster) installed. When I try to update with sudo apt upgrade, it ...
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CIFS mount incorrect disk space
I defined a new samba mount in an ubuntu VM via /etc/fstab //x.x.x.x/share /share cifs credentials=/.smbcreds,uid=1000,gid=1000,vers=3.0 0 0 With this I get the following output from df -h ...
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Why are du -h / du / df / df -h not refreshing when extracting a large file
I am running tar in the background, eg: tar xfvz large_file.tar.gz & It does extract my file, but when I then launch du -h, du, df or df -h, the output remains the same, and I have to wait few ...
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How to See Bound Folders and Release Them
This morning I noticed someone had stuck a USB Drive in the back of the server. (I'll have to end that practice later). For some reason CentOS 7 mounted that disk /dev/sdc1 under /run/media//. I also ...
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Mounted partition taking up space in root directory [closed]
On my laptop I have a Data partition which I use to store all my data across multiple linux installations and a seperate "OS"-partition where my OS is installed on. I have the Data partition ...
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Inaccessible drive with the message: unknown filesystem type '(null)'
Short story: A disk with partitions sdb1-sdb4 and filetype ext4 now shows up as sdb with no file type. While trying to mount sdb I get the messages: mount: /dev/sdb is write-protected, mounting read-...
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"mount" does not list a filesystem type [closed]
[macOS] I am attempting to find out the filesystem type so that I can specify the type in order to mount something; when I attempted to use "mount" to find out the filesystem type no type was listed. ...
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Mounting a subdirectory of home onto an own partition confuses disk usage report
1. Situation 1.1 Devices My filesystem has the following arrangement /dev/sda8 of 323 GiB is mounted to /home /dev/sda13 of 90 GiB is mounted to /home/user2/storage with the original intention to ...
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Linux Mint - External drive causing my file system to look full and giving me the "no space left on device" error
I have a nearly full external HDD mounted under /mnt. This HDD is around 1TB in size. My primary hard drive is around 200GB. Because of the relatively large difference in size of the two, linux sees ...
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