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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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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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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Reclaim disk space after deleting Outlook Emails
I have thousands of emails that I will be deleting from Outlook shortly. I am hoping to free some disk space after doing so. Will Outlook automatically release the memory used by emails after I delete ...
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Hungry Time Machine
i have Time Machine, enabled on my mac in manual mode.
Each day, i making a backup by clicking "Backup Now".
Each time, a few Gb are used, to do the backup.
The question is - Why so much ?
Each day i ...
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Lost disk space in Windows 7, cannot find the missing
My hard drive is complaining it is low on disk space, but a strange thing seems to be happening:
Explorer reports 10Gb of available space (on a 120 Gb hard disk), chkdsk in the command prompt does the ...
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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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How to increase virtual hard drive space
I have a Microsoft Virtual PC hard drive (.vhd format) that's maxed out at 16GB. What would be the best way to increase this disk space?
Booting into the machine (Windows XP Professional) and using ...
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Hard Drive Shows 122 GB used after fresh install of Windows, 18 GB of actual files?
I just installed Win 7, but did not format the drive. Windows shows that 122 GB of drive space has been consumed. Clearly this seems strange, so I selected everythign under the C: drive (including ...
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Increase root disk space
New to Linux, I want to increase the size of disk space in fedora-root and it appears that theres ~16GB of available space in other filesystems. Is this a correct assessment? Below I provide the ...
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Windows 10 not showing files and folders in E drive
I've partitioned my HDD into 4 parts - C, D, E, H drives. Recently E drive got full. After that, its files and folders disappeared. I also have dual boot Ubuntu. I can see the files and folders on ...
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Can I, and how do I, remove older versions of the kernel in Ubuntu?
I installed Ubuntu 9.10 on a computer with 4 GB available space (I can't delete stuff from the Windows partition yet). After two automatic Update Manager updates, my disk space is almost all gone. ...
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Windows obstinately shrinking the pagefile
I admit I have rather small free space available on my C:\ drive (only 3-4 GiBs usually, with a 4 GiB pagefile being around), but what really annoys me is this:
Windows sometimes does an operation(1) ...
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Saving space in a windows server 2008 workstation
Related Question:
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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Why am I missing space on my hard drive in Windows? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is the effective hard drive size lower than the actual size?
I have an HP Pavilion DM4 with a 750 GB hard drive. A few days ago, I installed Windows 8 on it, so I am now ...
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Low disk space on drive C with Windows 10
I have a "haier laptop y11b" it have 2 disks:
SSD card of 29 GB, C drive on which windows 10 is installed
HDD 465 GB
Previously Windows 8.1 was installed on this laptop and all the apps were ...
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Mac OS Sierra and High Sierra occupies 95GB on my MacBook Pro 2017 128GB Edition. How to Clean?
I am an iOS developer. I am using a 2017 MacBook Pro with 128GB disk space to do my job (company laptop 😭 ). But recently, I found I don't have enough space to build my app, switch Git branches. It ...
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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 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
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Hard drive full, but files / folders don't add up to used drive space [duplicate]
My harddrive is full, but according to the size of all my folders, I should have more than half of my drive left over.
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155 GB in c drive used up. 50 GB used in minutes. Windows 7
My laptop has Windows 7 home premium. OS is installed on C drive. The C drive has some 155 GB but currently only 1.17 GB is free.
I deleted contents of my download folder and moved the contents from ...
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