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2T file system full! du says only 70G consumed. Where is the rest?

When I run df / I get Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 2.0T 1.9T 0 100% / When I run sudo ncdu -x / I get Total disk usage: ...
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Why are df and du command show inconsistent results?

When I run df -h it shows that 95% has been used in /data4 and I am the only user under /data4. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on overlay 591G 455G 136G 78% / tmpfs ...
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BTRFS discrepancy between df and du

the difference between disk usage reported by df and du makes 20% of capacity of my drive. It is ubuntu-type btrfs filesystem with @ and @home. Where could be the problem please? df -h /dev/sda2 ...
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How can I find out the capacity of the nfs mounted directory on the disk?

I cloud not find files filling the disk. df -h command print out / part usage %86 ( capacity is 15G ) but du -sh / command print out 3G. I am using nfs share on my system. the nfs mounted to /mnt. i ...
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Is it safe to delete contents of /root/.cache folder to free up space?

I need to free up disk space on my linux server. I run the df command to check space ad see that I'm using up 100% of disk space. myserver:/ # df / Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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Folder is empty, but du reports high usage

I have a 115GB partition on my hard disk (output of cgdisk /dev/sda is below): Part. # Size Partition Type Partition Name --------------------------------------------------------...
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Is there a way I can check which block of disk is really used?

I use df and du to check disk usage of centos,then I get different results from these tools. [root@localhost home]# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/...
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how to increase the space on docker in CentOS7?

How can I increase the space on this docker? I need to transfer 30G of images into this docker to do the image processing within the docker however seems I only have 2G available $ sudo docker pull ...
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Wrong available storage reported for mac os

The available space on my Macbook Air is not getting reported correctly. Hard disk capacity is 120GB out of which 17GB is getting reported as available space when I check HD info. When I see in ...
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du and df on Mac give different results

I'm trying to figure out where my HD space is going. df tells me this: bash-3.2$ df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on /dev/disk1 148Gi 137Gi 11Gi ...
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Where is my diskspace?

Recently my disk space reached the 98% mark, and I tried to discover the reason for this. My system consists of two disks: a ssd /dev/sda and a storage hdd /dev/sdb. My Linux is installed on /dev/...
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Linux Server out of Disk Space

When I run some commands I get 'out of space' messages. I looked around the Internet for ways to diagnose the issue. I ran df: adam@nas:/$ df Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use%...
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Explaination needed for strange `df` and `du` results

Can someone help me to understand the following output: # df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/xvda1 8.0G 7.5G 167M 98% / udev 7.4G 8.0K 7.4G 1% /dev ...
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Discrepancy between df and du

I have a question pertaining the difference from 'df -h' and 'du -bs'. I have seen several questions here about it, but the issue was always that 'df -h' was reporting more used space than 'du -bs'. I ...
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How to analyse disk usage in command line linux?

du and df are nice, but I don't know how to filter the data they provide the way I do with SequoiaView. I would like to know which are the largest folders and the largest files in a glance.
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