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BTRFS and disk usage mystery

# df -h / Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 119G 113G 5.5G 96% / and BTRFS agrees: # btrfs fi df / Data, single: total=111.00GiB, used=110.53GiB ...
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Disk size shown to be less than 100Mb for a 1To drive

Good evening, I am trying to setup a backup disk on my Debian server, but it is recognized as having only 96Mb of space, when it's a 2To hard disk. I let you see it by yourself : [ This means the ...
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Fix man pages after disk was full

during an apt-get dist-upgrade my /var partition had no free disk space left, which led to dropping man pages during the installation of the packages. Now that I have fixed this problem, is there any ...
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How do I display the disk space purging a package would free under Debian?

I would like to remove unneeded packages. I have already removed large files (using k4dirstat) and the only left bit is a few hundreds of packages I installed but I do not use most of them (the ...
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Where is the used disk space if it is not in root

I recently discovered that I only had a very small amount of disk space left. I found that my logs were getting quite huge so I reconfigured logrotate. However, I still have some issues. Using df -h I ...
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Linux filesystem; difference in calculating size using df & du

When I run df it shows the root device is full. Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda1 9.9G 9.4G 0 100% / I looked at the inode usage and there is pretty ...
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What is the easiest way to free space on a hard drive?

My hard drive became full. I am looking for ways to locate the things that use most of my disk space. I played with cron once so it may have consumed a great deal of space, but really I have no clue. ...
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