Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
937
questions
0
votes
0
answers
23
views
More space on disk taken than actual files Win 11 [duplicate]
Windows says that 207 GB of space is used, but when I sum it up, it amounts to 153 GB. This is an SSD disk, and Windows says it is optimised.
Update: I deleted the recycle bin, and it freed 9 GB, but ...
- 43
0
votes
1
answer
48
views
How can Delete new windows update file that are not installed
SO I see that temp files are taking 23GB of space
but when I try to go and clean it, it doesn't delete the files,
how can I delete that 19gb update file
.
0
votes
0
answers
16
views
How can I make total size of LVM partition match Used + Available?
I have a weird storage situation that I suspect is because I set up my LVM allocations incorrectly:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/data-cams 916G 830G 41G 96% ...
- 800
0
votes
0
answers
8
views
How do I know number of smaller files vs number of bigger files distribution for analytical purpose?
So, I want to perform an analysis to determine the best allocation unit size (cluster size) decision on HDD. As we know, HDD is slow in IOPS but not that slower for IO rate.
The default NTFS cluster ...
0
votes
3
answers
94
views
How to retrieve a partition accidently turned into green "Free space"?
I accidently ran some commands -couldn't specify which, but I assume I did something using 'mountvol' that was recommended online-. After that I found partition 'D' turned into "Free space" (...
0
votes
0
answers
75
views
Allocate free disk space to partition in dual boot (Fedora & Windows)
My setup is the following: dual-boot system with Fedora 40 (Linux) and Windows 10 operating systems.
I have several unollacted disk spaces when inspecting my hard drive in Fedora. The following ...
- 21
0
votes
0
answers
33
views
A an inexplicable difference between the sum size of files on Local Disk C and its Used space attribute [duplicate]
I am cleaning my old laptop running Windows 11 Pro. I noticed a detail which does not make sense to me, hence my inquiry.
When select all top-level files in Local Disk C and right-click, then click ...
- 321
-1
votes
1
answer
91
views
EC2 Ubuntu instance with 30GB free space on attached volume says no space left on device
I have an EC2 instance on AWS with 30GB volume attached. When running docker to build an image though, I am encountering this issue of no space left on device.
Actually, running df -h I can see /dev/...
- 1
1
vote
0
answers
175
views
How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?
I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
- 11
4
votes
3
answers
2k
views
Windows C: drive apparently nearly empty but cannot account for the used storage
If I go to 'This PC', it says I have 22GB free out of 933GB, which is worrying.
However if I go into the C: drive, select all folders and files (including hidden ones) > right-click > Properties,...
- 51
1
vote
0
answers
105
views
100% disk full on Centos?
Situation on machine:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 14G 3.9G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 59G 0 59G 0% /dev
tmpfs 59G 932M 59G 2% /dev/shm
...
- 11
0
votes
0
answers
89
views
Transmission and available disk space
I used Transmission to get a file which was part of a set of large files. Before opening the torrent, I checked the disk space :
df -h /dev/sda5
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/...
- 121
0
votes
1
answer
375
views
Windows 11 system storage is always changing
I got a problem using Windows 11 Pro version 23H2.
System takes up a lot of disk space
Every day I notice that the space on my system disk changes, day by day it gets bigger or smaller by itself.
The ...
- 13
0
votes
0
answers
338
views
What causes Volume Shadow Copy to enable itself without user intervention?
I have been dealing with issues where the empty space on the C drive always goes to 0. I would run through the normal steps to empty space. But, the space would always be taken back down to 0. This is ...
- 101
0
votes
1
answer
315
views
Freshly Provisioned Cent-OS occupies a lot of space for "/dev/mapper/centos-root"
I created a fresh VM, however I started facing space issues as soon as it got created. From the du and lsblk command I see /dev/mapper/centos-root is occupying a lot of space. I tried running tree ...
- 123