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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My C Drive is full without reason [duplicate]
My C drive (SSD, the drive on which I installed the OS) recently shows that it's almost full.
(Japanese text says: empty space is 6.98 GB out of 105 GB.)
But when I checked by computing all the ...
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How can I disable the low disk space warning on a single drive in Windows 8?
Id like to disable the low disk space warning, ideally for a single drive in Windows 8.
My gut feeling is that is it will be an all or nothing change.
Any ideas?
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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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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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Hibernate is disabled, hiberfil.sys gets recreated at each boot
I have Windows 7 running on a small (40GB) partition, with 4GB ram. This means that the hiberfil.sys file created by Hibernate takes up a significant portion of the available diskspace. I would like ...
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Display filesystem's free space available to the root user
By default, Linux reserves some fraction of a filesystem for the root user, at least on ext4 (to prevent ordinary users from filling the drive completely and crashing the system, and to reduce ...
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What is the approximate installation size of a "clean" Windows 10 Upgrade, post install and cleanup?
I'm interested in the installation size of Windows 10 when it has been installed on an existing, clean, Windows 7 or Windows 8 installation. By "clean" I mean only a standard non-OEM OS and critical ...
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Remove System Volume information folder from external drive
I have currently found out that System Volume information folder on my external HDD takes around 124GB of space. Hence I decided to delete it to free up some additional space. But for now everything ...
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slim down disk space usage windows 7
How can I reduce the amount of hard drive space Windows 7 uses? I've got my Win7 cramped into a 10GB virtual machine, and with Office installed, I’m running out of space. The short answer 'use a ...
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Windows 7 : Disk space : windirstat shows 88 GBs used : Windows shows 143 GBs used
The total disk space shown by the "scanner" program is 232GB and the innermost circle shows used space is 143GB.
When I check with WinDirStat the total files used are 88GB.
Does this mean that the ...
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Why does my 500GB hard drive have a capacity of exactly 500,107,862,016 bytes?
Why does my 500 GB hard disk show up to have exactly 500 107 862 016 Byte?
I'm aware of the GiB vs. GB issue and know that manufacturers of hard drives use 1000 as ...
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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,...
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how to tell whats eating my harddrive space? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicates:
Best free tool to find largest files and folders on a drive
Best program to visualize file system usage on Windows?
does anyone know a free software that will graph the ...
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where is my free space
I'm using Pinnacle Studio 12 to edit some videos and as you can guess it uses a lot of resources. The problem is that it eats all my free space from the C drive and after I close the application I don'...
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Windows 7 C: drive is full, but folders don't add up [duplicate]
I'm baffled. My C: Drive is showing up as almost full at 127GB out of a 138GB hard drive capacity. However, when I add up all the folders, they only add up to 73GB.
That's a whole whopping 54GB that'...
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Windows 7: What is \Windows\Temp?
Trying to figure out where all the room on my new laptop went I found over 90GB eaten up by my c:\Windows\Temp directory.
None of these files I recognize and many seem to have not changed in months. ...
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Windows 7 taking more space than Vista?
I've just done an upgrade from Windows Vista Home to Windows 7 Home. I had previously done a backup of all the files i needed to keep ( pics, music, emails,...) on another computer.
In all, the ...
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Unknown missing space in Windows 7 C:\ drive
I've been checking the internet for answers to missing space in Windows 7 (Professional 32bit) but most are slightly different from mine.
My C:\ drive has about 56GB. Current disk space is about 5....
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Over 20GB of disk space is gone?
System drive, OS is Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate.
Windows Explorer shows 100GB of used space.
TreeSizeFree shows 75GB of used space.
Total Commander and FAR confirm TreeSizeFree's measurements (...
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Dismiss low disk space prompt (Suspend, Power Off, Continue)
I'm running a Windows 7 virtual machine under VMware Fusion 5. The VM is out of disk space, and I'm getting the following prompt:
The prompt says:
VMware Fusion has paused this virtual machine ...
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How to delete lost files in NTFS drive
I faced a problem like the one described here. Basically, after connecting my NTFS external hard drive to my TV, two folders were lost, appearing only as a 0KB file.
I have been able to recover the ...
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vista winsxs folder eats disk space [duplicate]
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Why does the /winsxs folder grow so large, and can it be made smaller?
My machine has been running Vista Ultimate 64-Bit for about two years now. ServicePacks SP1 and SP2 are ...
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Empty drives show 2 GB used, Explorer shows nothing
I have 4 drives in Windows: C:, D:, E: and F:. Except C:, all of them are empty.
Suddenly it shows up to 2 GB space used – even when there are no files.
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When I format the drives, it's fine for a ...
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Unable to create folder/file on root in spite of free space
Since some time I am unable to create file/folder on root.
I always log in as root and was able to work properly.
My experience is as follows:
# pwd
/root
# mkdir xcxcx
mkdir: cannot create directory ...
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Why does emptying disk space speed up computers?
I have been looking at a bunch of videos and now understand a bit better how computers work. I better understand what RAM is, volatile and non-volatile memory, and the process of swapping. I also ...
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How to determine available free space on Ubuntu?
I am in a situation where I am getting an error when I try to save a file to my Ubuntu server via ssh. It says there isn't any available space left. I don't know how that can be true. What should I do ...
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Why did defragmenting C drive increase my free disk space by 10 GB?
I used Defraggler to defragment free space on my 100 GB C:\ drive which was 85 GB full. After defragmentation, the drive showed only 75 GB full. How did 10 GB of free space ...
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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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System Volume Information folder huge
I have yet another problem with the System Volume Information folder on my machine. I'm using Windows 10 Home 21H2. The folder occupies ~150GB (that is ~60% of my C: drive)
Among other sources, I used ...
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How much space do directories consume?
How much space empty directories take?
In Windows and NTFS file system it say '0 bytes' which is impossible.
How much is really taken up by a directory? Does it depend on the file system or ...
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Can I delete files from C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download? [duplicate]
I need to free space on Windows XP SP3.
Q1) What system folders can be safely delete in case I don't need to have restore points etc?
Q2) Can I delete content from C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\...
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How to reduce the size (disk space) of Windows 8
This question is about what things I can do to reduce the size that Windows 8 uses.
Background example:
At present, and with only one program installed (MS Access 2007), I have used about 15GB of my ...
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Why does sector-number addressing in CHS start at sector 1 and not 0?
Before LBA was introduced, why does CHS start at 0,0,1 and not 0,0,0 ?
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Unexpected free disk space decrease?
On my Windows 7 PC, the free disk space has gone down by 1GB even though I haven't downloaded or installed any new files and I haven't downloaded any updates or other things? What could have made the ...
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Hidden files in Disk Usage Analyzer
How do I get Ubuntu's "Disk Usage Analyzer" to show me the hidden files?
It tells me my home dir uses 3GB, but only accounts for 525MB (the results of du -shc *). Can I get it to show me the other ...
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My C drive is 20GB large and almost full, how do I regain space?
I have Windows 7 Ultimate installed on my PC. The C drive has a capacity of 20 GB and I have only a few applications installed. Still, the drive shows as being almost full up to its capacity and keeps ...
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What app can i use to track disk space?
I dont know what is going on but my disk space seems to be going down and i am not downloading anything. What app can i use on windows to keep track of diskspace? I used windirstat which tells you how ...
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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 to clear 217Gb of <Unknown> space on my C drive?
I have a Dell XPS 15 (2013 model L521X - Windows 7) with a capacity of 680.3 GB on the C drive.
But WinDirSat says that 217.4 GB of that space is <Unknown>
and I can't access it!
SpaceSniffer ...
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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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Why does my freshly-formatted disk have 450 MB of data on it?
The answer is probably obvious, but I'm sure enquiring minds want to know: if I erase a disk and reformat it, what's already taking up almost half a gigabyte of space? In this case, it's formatted HFS+...
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Mac Lion OS X - I deleted files, but the disk free space is not increased
I had on Mac Lion OS X just 0.5GB of free space, so I deleted like 15 GB movies => OS X wanted to confirm this operation by filling out the password => I did it and the files were deleted.
I checked ...
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Does the amount of available free disk space in Windows (XP only?) impact performance?
I remember reading that when the available free disk space falls below 10% of the total disk space on the computer, performance is degraded.
If true, can someone explain this in more depth than what ...
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How can I free up some space in my C: drive?
Each time I try to save a file, I get a message from my computer (with Windows 7) that asks me to free up some space in my Drive C before being able to save my intended file.
But the more I search ...
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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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Not enough disk space to upgrade to Windows 10
I am on Windows 7 and wish to upgrade to Windows 10,
but I do not have enough disk space for the upgrade.
I think that I need to upgrade to Windows 10 through Windows 7,
rather than start from a ...
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Disk Usage Bar not showing in Windows Server 2008
In my Windows Server 2008 R2 system disk usage bar is not showing, when am using tiles view in My Computer.
Earlier it used to show the bar. In details view its showing total size and free space.
I ...
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Is it ok and how do I remove Windows Update installation files?
Whenever Windows updates, it sometimes/most times downloads installation files, and then uses those files to install the update onto the OS (correct me if I'm wrong on this assumption). What I want ...
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Exact files (Copied) have a different size on disk on the same drive?
Recently I've run across something odd. An exact copy of a folder full of files has a different Size on Disk than the original. I could understand how this could happen between drives with different ...
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Why a "Not enough space on disk" error on 7zip even with sufficient space?
I am using 7-zip to split a large folder (>200 GB) into chunks of 4.7GB so that I can burn them onto a DVD. But for now, I am storing these chunks in an external hard disk which has ~300GB of space. ...
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