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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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
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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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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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