Questions tagged [disk-space]
The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
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Minimum space to allocate for Windows System Restore points
I'm using Win7 and am wondering what is the minimum space that is recommended to allocate for the System Restore function.
It's currently (by default) set to 7.5 GB which seems an awful lot.
How much ...
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How can I recover/compact space used by a Virtual PC virtual hard drive?
I have a Windows 2003 Server setup in Virtual PC. I loaded it with VS2005, SQL Server etc., and the size of the VHD file was 15 GB. Over the months, I have tried various things including setting up ...
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Is there a Windows command-line utility to list largest files exceeding specific size in sub-directories?
Would like to be able to find full paths of files in a directory tree that exceed a specific size (say 10MB).
Currently aware of Microsoft's Diruse (part of Windows XP Service Pack 2 Support Tools) ...
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How to reduce MacOS X Leopard footprint? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
What do you remove from a default os x install?
Hello.
Is it any guides available how to reduce an HDD space occupied by Mac OS X? Languages i don't use etc.
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What stuff can safely be deleted/uninstalled from a fresh Windows 7 install?
My Windows 7 install is a bit portly - using well over 6GB.
I've tried my usual favourite CCleaner and that didn't come up with much at all. It removed only a couple of megabytes.
Any ideas on what ...
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How to determine where my disk space went [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
How to find disk usage of folders in Windows
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
What’s using up my disk space?
Windows 7 - mysteriously missing free ...
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Windows Disk Cleanup: "Compress old files" option
Should I check "compress old files" option while performing disk cleanup on Windows XP? What are the pros and cons?
Likewise, there is another option in Local Disk Properties window: "Compress drive ...
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Windows 7 - missing free HDD space
I have Windows 7 installed on a 45 GB partition, and every now and then it gets full, and I have to resize that partition. I always thought this was quite normal. But it happened again today and this ...
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Does a recursive disk-space-usage pie-chart web-page generator exist for Linux?
Does anyone know of a per directory ( not per user) disk space usage pie chart generator script for linux? I want to generate a set of web pages that will give me the usage of each directory, and ...
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Creating space on C partition
I have a work computer (Windows XP) that is partitioned into a C and a D drive. The C drive is allocated 20GB of space, and is currently hovering around 500MB free.
I scanned it with TreeSize Free ...
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Minimum disk space for Windows 7/VS2010/Expression 3 etc
I'm about to boot camp my at home PC (a Mac, if not obvious) with the intention of only doing some .NET development on it. I have about 60GB to work with, so only want enough room for the Windows ...
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Windows.old folder loaded with Vista - Is it needed?
I have a laptop which is loaded with Windows Vista. There is a folder called Windows.Old in the C: drive which occupies about 2.5 GB of disk space and I badly need the space.
Do I really need the ...
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Why does Windows occupy more disk space, compared to Linux? [closed]
Why does a Windows install take so much place compared to most Linux distributions, despite being capable of much less? For example, a standard Ubuntu installation takes about 4 GB and can actually be ...
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How can a linux disk be full, but files total to significanly less?
df reports 16G partition at 100%. du on root reports about 1G in files. Where did all my disk space go?
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ubuntu: "File System" free space: 75.0 MB ?
I just installed Ubuntu side by side with XP on my laptop.
I'm trying to find how much free space I have left after installation.
I go into "File Browser" and click on "File System" in the left ...
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Moving space from d: to c: (server 2008)
I shrinked (using disk management in server 2008) the d: and extracted space of about 6 GB. This extracted space got allocated immediately after d:
Is there a way to extend my c: partition and add ...
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Insufficient disk space to view image? Word 2003
I friend had the weirdest problem the other day. When opening a word (.doc) document in word 2003 on which she had been working for a few months, some pictures weren't showing. In stead, they were ...
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Converting FAT32 to NTFS without formatting (server 2008) [duplicate]
I have a FAT32 partition in windows server 2008 machine. How can I convert the partition to NTFS without formatting?
My intention is to resize the partition and add some more space to my primary ...
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Saving space in a windows server 2008 workstation
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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
My server 2008 installation drive is eating space like anything. Specially the winsxs folder.
Trying ...
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Can files in C:\WINDOWS\Temp be deleted and does Disk Cleanup do so?
It appears that files which currently aren't in use can be safely deleted from the C:\WINDOWS\Temp folder... Why doesn't Disk Cleanup offer to do this automatically?
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Why can't I extend the C: drive on Vista? Because I have Free Space to its right instead of Unallocated Space
I have a C: drive that is the primary partition (bootable) that I would like to extend.
In order to do that it seems like I need to have Unallocated Space to the right of the partition.
Right now, ...
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Hard drive disk size smaller than labeled - 320GB drive contains only 60GB
I worked on a computer for a family member and got them a larger hard drive, going from 60GB to 320GB. I used Acronis True Image to copy the disk, and since I didn't have a USB enclosure for the bare ...
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Virtual Machine optimizers [closed]
I have read a discussion about musthave Windows software. User esabine addend a link to Scott Hanselman's tools list. One of the tools Scott was writing about was an optimizer tool for VM’s. - ...
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Is it safe to delete from C:\Windows\Installer?
I've been looking on an XP machine what is using all that diskspace, and it turns out C:\Windows\Installer is high up there on the list of directories that use the most diskspace.
It seems to contain ...
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What's using up my disk space?
My Vista 64 installation has drive C, a 150 GB hard drive. I also has a 1.5 TB drive D. My C drive has 12.3 GB free. I don't know what's using up all the space. There's almost 83 GB unaccounted ...
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iPhone/iPod space usage information on the device
iTunes gives an information (capacity bar) of the device (iPod Touch) when connected, with respect to the amount of space used by each category like Audio, Video, Photos, Apps etc. Is there any ...
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Is there a way for Windows 7 to show remaining disk space in the status bar?
This is really driving me nuts. I do a lot of moving media files to and from USB drives, and I am constantly looking to the status bar to see how much remaining space I have on a drive. It's quick, ...
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I emptied my hard drive, but it still has 9GB on it
I have a secondary disk drive 465GB as reported by Windows explorer.
I'm going to install a secondary O/S on it, so I moved EVERYTHING on it to another drive.
Windows explorer STILL reports 9.27GB ...
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Linux, checking how much space is used on each partition
On Windows, the "My Computer" view shows how much disk space each partition/volume has.
How do I get this information in Linux (Linux Mint)?
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Linux utility for finding the largest files/directories [closed]
I'm looking for a program to show me which files/directories occupy the most space, something like:
74% music
\- 60% music1
\- 14% music2
12% code
13% other
I know that it's possible in KDE3, but ...
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Do I need Partition for any good reason if I only have single boot?
If I will never want to dual boot two OS, then should I have number of partitions in 500GB main hard disk in notebook for any good reasons?
Or What are the other reasons someone can have multiple ...
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How can I visualize the file system usage on Windows?
How can I visualize which folders and files are taking up all of the space on my hard drive?
I'm getting some conflicting reports on the size of hard drive contents. Namely what is and isn't there ...
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Reclaiming disk space on Windows [closed]
A lot of disk space is taken up by a default Windows installation in various temporary and backup data that may never get cleaned up on its own. Eventually you realize that the large multi hundred ...
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Possible to safely change size of partition? Windows XP, NTFS
I currently have a 160GB drive partitioned as C: (Windows, Primary) and D: (data). I was a terrible estimator in the beginning, and the C: drive is approaching capacity, whereas I have ~35GB spare on ...
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How much disk usage do RAW videos use?
How much space does RAW video footage ( downloaded directly from the camera ) use?
I use a Sony Handicam dcr-hc51e.
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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
A Vista virtual machine I use only has a 10 GB virtual hard disk -- and I'm worried about it running out of space over time.
I used TreeSize to check for the culprits..
And the primary culprit is ...
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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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