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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macbook pro with windows 10 partition-unable to start windows because too little disk space
macbook pro with windows 10 partition-unable to start windows because too little disk space--just hangs.. When I plug in the windows boot thumb drive, do a restart from the mac side, I see the ...
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Deleting Windows.old in Windows10 by way of the System Cleanup, less than half of the space expected to be released was
My Windows.old folder was ~26GB. Rather than directly deleting it, I used Windows disk cleanup (CleanMgr.exe) to Cleanup past Windows installations - also showing that it would free 26GB. After doing ...
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Unable to partition in Windows
partitioning
When I try to create a new volume I am getting above error
You cannot create a new volume in this unallocated space because the disk already contains the maximum numbers of partitions.
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add space to /dev/sda1 kali linux
i have never done such operations on my kali linux. I want to add more disk space and I have done the following.
In Virtual Box settings I have added more space.
Done
This has added more space on ...
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Merge two partitions which contain different OSes
I have two OSes installed in my laptop, Windows 10 and Ubuntu. Now, I want to remove Ubuntu and merge that partition with the other partition in Windows. How am I supposed to do it?
This is how the ...
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Failed install of Hyper V uses up 18GB of HDD [duplicate]
I've decided to try out the 'Hyper-V Windows 10 dev environment' on my laptop. Beginning this I only had about 20gb remaining so had to remove an additional 20gb from my hard drive, leaving me with ...
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How to Remove the C:\Recovery\ Folder in Windows 10?
I am using Windows 10 Home (currently, ver 1909).
I would like to remove the C:\Recovery\ folder, which takes 3.61GB on my C: partition.
From what I read on the internet, the C:\Recovery\ folder is ...
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How is it possible for empty files to take zero bytes in Linux?
I've also asked a sibling question for Windows.
In Linux (I just tested):
The size of an empty folder is given as 4 KB (regardless of its name)
The size of an empty file is given as 0 bytes
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How is it possible for empty files and folders to take zero bytes in Windows?
I've also asked a sibling question for Linux.
In Windows (I just tested):
The size of an empty folder is given as 0 bytes
The size of an empty file is given as 0 bytes
However, files and folders ...
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Rsyslog fills up disk - unexpected behaviour
I have a rsyslog that forwards messages to elasticsearch. It worked well for over a year but recently the disk starts to fill mysteriously until it reaches 100%.
When I restart the process the disk ...
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System protection disk space keeps being reset to 100%
When I find myself running out of disk space sometimes my System Volume Information folder is huge. So I open System Protection, go to my Windows drive and find that Disk Space Usage is set to 100%. I ...
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Unable to use free space shown by diskutil in macOS
I have a 2TB external drive (disk2) that used to have a volume (disk2s4) and two APFS containers (disk2s3 and disk2s2). I removed one of those volumes (500GB disk2s2) thinking I could then resize the ...
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Linux Partition Disk usage increases as the time goes by up to 100%
New to both Linux and OpenVAS.
I'm gonna try to simplify the problem outside of the specific set up.
I'm having an issue where I have my Linux (Kali) partition being filled up to 100% within a few ...
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Move Windows 10 folders to another disk to free up space
I have a 60GB SSD that is near full and Windows is having trouble installing updates.
I feel like I picked all the low hanging fruit ages ago; documents, programs and pretty much anything that is not ...
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How can I increase the size of a lubuntu virtual machine in VirtualBox?
I am using VirtualBox 6 on Windows 10. I have used the Virtual Media Manager to increase the size of my lubuntu virtual machine. However, I cannot access that additional space within the virtual ...
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System drive fills up for no reason
have 128 gb of ssd, and my system drive is located there. Every time I reinstall windows I get 60 gb of free space. After a month or so it becomes 0 very quickly even though I don't install anything ...
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Windows shows 150GB less than Chkdsk
Windows is reporting 199GB free when CHKDSK reports ~350GB free. The drive in question is a 1TB SSD that was my former Windows drive. I have run disk check and checked for shadows. How can I reclaim ...
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WinRar is acting weirdly
I tried to unarchive a 40 gig zip archive in my d drive which at the time had 120 gigs free but i was greated by a message that i don't have enough disk space i was really confused and i decided to ...
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PowerShell Increases Disk Size as Desired but Throwing Errors Without any Problems
This script loads a .csv file and iterates through a list of VM's and checks free disk space and if below a certain amount in GB, increases disk space to that specified in the script. If the free ...
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How do I organize harddrive architecture for efficient backup procedure? [closed]
Given some system needs to do daily backup of its data on harddrive. Backup implies essential load on harddrive storage. Backup procedure can last several hours. The system can execute some other read/...
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Directory size using du discrepancy vs df
We're interested in /var/moodle-docker-deploy directory size, which resides inside /var file system:
root@moodle2prod:/var/moodle-docker-deploy# du -sh .
1,4T .
Using df, /var filesystem uses just ...
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C drive getting full in windows 10 for no reason
I had 37 GB free on my main OS drive (C:) in my 512 GB SSD hard-drive. I installed a 2nd 1 TB drive anticipating needing more disk space soon. Just in few days c:\ drive got full for no apparent ...
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How do I get back unused disk space from Ubuntu on WSL2?
I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 on WSL2 on Windows 10, and I noticed that after removing files on Ubuntu I was not getting the space back that was taken up by the removed files. For example: Before I deleted ...
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NTFS-SSD: Testing: Write data to use whole disk Linux - overflow
I want to test the reliability of harddrives (mostly SSD) to check when they break down.
(I think this question fits best on Superuser instead of stackoverflow or server fault.)
I know there are tools ...
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Why is my Ubuntu Installation taking more space than actual size
My installation of ubuntu is taking 13.7 GB when seen from Windows Settings, but when I ran
ncdu - -exclude /c
It shows only 4.7 GB is in use. Where is the rest of the space utilized.
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Understanding partition size modification
I'm trying to understand the relation between block size, and partition siz.
Partition size needs to be an integer multiple of a block, so if the page size is 4KB, and each block has 64 pages, the ...
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How do I get my disk space back from my deleted virtual machine from VirtualBox?
As a context, I wanted to upgrade to Ubuntu 20.04, but I don't have enough disk space.
After having deleted a virtual machine from VirtualBox, I didn't gain any disk space, which I found odd. Is it ...
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Windows server- disk management and diskpart show different disk sizes
I have an HB proliant server with windows server 2012 R2 as OS. it has already 4Tb disk that drive c and D are on it. recently we added a bay with 8 disk all together are 8 TB. i wanted to format and ...
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New healthy SSD disk installed with old HDD disk at risk with Reallocated Sectors Count : where should I put my data, reorganize drives?
I recently use the app CrystalDiskInfo which is a SSD/HDD utility to check on my hardware's health.
I noticed that I had something bad which was caused by "Reallocated Sectors Count" - I ...
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Why do identical folders on two different hard drives of the same file count and file sizes, take up a different size on disk? [duplicate]
Both have
216,540 files
52,103 folders
Size: 278 GB (299,363,715,785 bytes)
But for one hard drive the size on disk is 278 GB (299,672,182,784 bytes) and for another it's 278 GB (299,672,211,456 ...
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How to determine the number of free bytes on a disk in Windows 10 on the terminal without elevation?
If I run this command:
fsutil volume diskfree e:
I get:
Error: Access is denied.
Only by manually opening an "elevated" cmd.exe does it output the actual output of the command.
I need a ...
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How can expand ext4 while it is inside an extended partition
I have my hard-drive divided as shown on the screenshot
here
I'd like to expand sda8 by taking some space from sda6.
With GParted I was already able to shrink sda6 before expecting to merge it with ...
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External hard drive - 40 MB folder has a 5 GB "size on disk"
I was now copying a folder which contains thousands of small files (about 3-4 KB each) from my laptop to my external hard disk. The whole folder should be around 40 MB. However, I noticed the process ...
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Understanding how bytes are converted into GB in windows system information [duplicate]
I bought a laptop that was advertised as having 512GB hard drive. But when I checked in windows explorer it shows a size of only 475 GB
I also checked system information and that is displaying ...
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Find what Recently took the disk space
My first post here, I hope I'm doing it right.
So, here's the deal: I have a D: drive that's running out of space (not system drive). It had only 1GB left so I checked what I could delete, deleted ...
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Are any relation between 100% disk usage and reallocated sector count and current pending sector count?
I am suffering from 100% disk usage while not using anything on my hp pc. I run crystal disk info and the health status was caution, also I observed yellow sign beside reallocated sector count and ...
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System Volume Information folder on E drive... But System Protection not enabled for that drive?
I'm running Windows 10, and have a 302GB HDD for my E drive and a 300GB HDD for a D drive.
On the D drive, there is a System Volume Information folder taking up 100GB... I'd like to reduce or ...
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System volume info folder creation
This is what tree file size shows[This is the PowerShell screenshot that tells about the windows shadow copies][1]I have turned system protection off and manually make backups using the Windows 7 ...
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Can I move the C:\Users folder to D:\ drive?
Basically, the problem goes like this:
I own a Windows 10 PC with 32 GB EMMC storage which caters to my need of sending mails, doing basic typing etc. There is a slot to insert a MicroSD card (D:\) ...
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Why is my disk full after transforming the picture in Photoshop?
I am new to Photoshop and I was just practicing to make a new page and crop a imported picture and copy it to my blank page.
I am sure that my computer is not weak because it has a good ram,CPU and ...
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Writing to /dev/sdX instead of /dev/sdX1
What happens physically if I want to copy some files to an external hard drive and do cp -a [file] /dev/sdX instead of cp -a [file] /dev/sdX1? Or when wiping a drive by overwriting it with zeros, is ...
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Drive E on Windows 10 home edition is filled but the total folder properties shows a much lower space consumption
One SSD - 128 GB - Drive C
One HDD - 1TB - Drive D, E, F
The storage size of my Drive E is 310 GB. Windows is installed on Drive C. Some of the programs are installed on Drive E. I have noticed that ...
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Why `du` output / subdirectory size on disk changes after creating a file in parent directory?
╼ pwd
/some/dir
╼ ls
╼ some_script.py --create centos-chroot
╼ ls
centos-chroot
╼ du --block-size=1 -s centos-chroot
6320181248
╼ fallocate -l 36613854208 largefile
╼ ls
centos-chroot largefile
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How to count total size of directory, and why `du` output differs between copies of directory?
Because I am clearly missing something here:
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 1
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 2
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 3
$ cp -a CENTOS-chroot 4
$ du --block-size=1 -s 1 2 3 4
6320304128 1
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How to collect selective dsks and unused space using ansible facts?
Here are my example codes, questions at bottom
hw.j2:
System Total Memory : {{ ansible_memtotal_mb }}
Free Memory : {{ ansible_memfree_mb }}
System Total CPU : {{ ...
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Windows 10 45Gb space was missing
This is latest, happened two days back on 07-07-2020. I have been using windows for year and I have installed and uninstalled a lot of software in between. My disk space in C:\ drive is 250 GB and it ...
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After format window partition size reduced to 30 gb
This morning I saw my window was stuck at boot page with system date and time it was not coming out then I decided to format this window 10. During format I saw laptop volume was only showing 30 gb I ...
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Limiting Disk Space Usage For A Process In Linux
I need to have an ability to limit a certain process for using too much disk space.
Saw that this can be solved using containers (here).
Is there anyway to do that in a native way? (Ubuntu 16.04) Disk ...
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Black screen in Ubuntu VM prevents me from resizing it
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While using my Ubuntu 20.04 VM, got the following warning
Clicking Examine one can see the following
In this case, the trash has only one file with 50,8 MB
so while one could trash it, ...
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which files can be deleted to save space
I have scanned my C drive with TreeSize tool.
Here is a screenshot.
I want to know which files I can delete to save space.
I am on Windows 10.
