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Why is an incorrect size reported on multi-partition USB flash drive?
I'm creating a custom Linux installer which uses two partitions on a 4GB USB flash drive: an EFI partition for booting and a data partition for installer files.
The size reported by df is unexpected.
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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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What happens if I dont resize filesystem after increasing storage
My question is built on top of this post:
why df vs lsblk command have different results?
The command, df and lsblk, yielded different result since I increased the storage. From the above post, it ...
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Linux + what are the preferred options in order to resolve inodes that reached 100%
we have RHEL machine , and from df -i , we can see that some partitions are with 100% ( about inodes ) , in spite by df -h we have space
Note - disks are VMDK disks
df -h
/dev/sdc ...
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linux df -h not showing some info
I have Ubuntu 20.04 linux and I create a second disk, and second filesystem. Right now when I want to see info my second filesystem df is not showing. I use default mount specification.
df -ah
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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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Why my disk not in /dev/diskstats
I can see the device /dev/xsda by df -h command.
But the device not shown in /proc/diskstats. Instead, there are devices names as below:
sda
sda0
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sda6
lsbk does not show the device either
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Not the same output format from `df` in different Linux distributions
In Ubuntu the output of this command
df --exclude={tmpfs,devtmpfs,squashfs,overlay} | sed -e /^Filesystem/d | awk '{print $6 " " $1 " " $3 " " $4 " " $5}'
is:
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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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Why does it say no space available when a lot are avaliable?
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30G 290M 28G 2% /
devtmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev
tmpfs 63G 0 63G 0% /dev/shm
tmpfs ...
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Is it possible to add a thousands comma separator to the output of the Linux "df" command
df command gives me good information, and I love to see it in KB unit. But I need a thousands separator (aka: a comma) every 3 digits because the numbers will be always huge.
ex> df
Filesystem ...
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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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Difference in free disk space - ncdu and df
I've noticed that there is a huge difference in free disk space for root by using "ncdu" or "df" for me:
df -Th:
dev devtmpfs 7,8G 0 7,8G 0% /dev
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What is the total size of your Linux installation and total partitions on the system?
I am going through the Linux documentation and trying to answer the following questions
On which partition is your home directory?
How many partitions are on your system?
What is the total size of ...
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Why does rm over NFS not free space immediately?
I'm on a SUSE Enterprise server which has mounted a drive via an NFS mount. I have created a 34GB file via dd if=/dev/Zero of=test_file bs=8k Count=4194304 to test the write speed of the NFS share. ...
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