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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More space on disk taken than actual files Win 11 [duplicate]
Windows says that 207 GB of space is used, but when I sum it up, it amounts to 153 GB. This is an SSD disk, and Windows says it is optimised.
Update: I deleted the recycle bin, and it freed 9 GB, but ...
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How can Delete new windows update file that are not installed
SO I see that temp files are taking 23GB of space
but when I try to go and clean it, it doesn't delete the files,
how can I delete that 19gb update file
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How can I make total size of LVM partition match Used + Available?
I have a weird storage situation that I suspect is because I set up my LVM allocations incorrectly:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/data-cams 916G 830G 41G 96% ...
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How do I know number of smaller files vs number of bigger files distribution for analytical purpose?
So, I want to perform an analysis to determine the best allocation unit size (cluster size) decision on HDD. As we know, HDD is slow in IOPS but not that slower for IO rate.
The default NTFS cluster ...
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How to retrieve a partition accidently turned into green "Free space"?
I accidently ran some commands -couldn't specify which, but I assume I did something using 'mountvol' that was recommended online-. After that I found partition 'D' turned into "Free space" (...
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Allocate free disk space to partition in dual boot (Fedora & Windows)
My setup is the following: dual-boot system with Fedora 40 (Linux) and Windows 10 operating systems.
I have several unollacted disk spaces when inspecting my hard drive in Fedora. The following ...
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A an inexplicable difference between the sum size of files on Local Disk C and its Used space attribute [duplicate]
I am cleaning my old laptop running Windows 11 Pro. I noticed a detail which does not make sense to me, hence my inquiry.
When select all top-level files in Local Disk C and right-click, then click ...
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EC2 Ubuntu instance with 30GB free space on attached volume says no space left on device
I have an EC2 instance on AWS with 30GB volume attached. When running docker to build an image though, I am encountering this issue of no space left on device.
Actually, running df -h I can see /dev/...
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How to format partition of the disk which has System & reserved files?
I wanted to format partition on my SSD, but it has System and reserved files. Does anybody know if I can just delete these files or move them to another disk?
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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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100% disk full on Centos?
Situation on machine:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 14G 3.9G 0 100% /
devtmpfs 59G 0 59G 0% /dev
tmpfs 59G 932M 59G 2% /dev/shm
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Transmission and available disk space
I used Transmission to get a file which was part of a set of large files. Before opening the torrent, I checked the disk space :
df -h /dev/sda5
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/...
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Windows 11 system storage is always changing
I got a problem using Windows 11 Pro version 23H2.
System takes up a lot of disk space
Every day I notice that the space on my system disk changes, day by day it gets bigger or smaller by itself.
The ...
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What causes Volume Shadow Copy to enable itself without user intervention?
I have been dealing with issues where the empty space on the C drive always goes to 0. I would run through the normal steps to empty space. But, the space would always be taken back down to 0. This is ...
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Freshly Provisioned Cent-OS occupies a lot of space for "/dev/mapper/centos-root"
I created a fresh VM, however I started facing space issues as soon as it got created. From the du and lsblk command I see /dev/mapper/centos-root is occupying a lot of space. I tried running tree ...
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Disk space, I delete files and the available status shown is not altered
Equipment: MacBook Pro
MacOS: Monterrey
Dear colleagues, I would like to ask if any of you have experience of having dealt with this or similar problem and what alternative or possible solution you ...
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Can AMD DxcCache, DxCache, Dx9Cache cache files be shared across users?
On Windows 10, playing games mostly from Steam and Epic, multiple users have large cache files in %AppData%\Local\AMD, eg %AppData%\Local\AMD\DxCache. Across 4 users playing the same games, the DX (...
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Oracle Virtual Box Linux VM : virtual size vs actual size
I've just installed a fresh Kali version on Oracle Virtual Box.
To do so, I created a VM with 250Gb disk space, then ran the .iso : hence, the .vdi file size is 250Gb.
But when logged in, when I try - ...
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How to extend windows partitions, and how to solve C: partition extension issue [duplicate]
The C: drive needs more storage space on my system drive.
When I take some space from D: drive, the space out is a free space,
the space needed is unallocated space to merge it into C: drive.
how can ...
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I want to increase the size of home partition in Ubuntu 23.04
I have installed ubuntu with windows in dual boot and I have about 100gb in free space which is not partitioned anywhere but I cant seem to find any solution that fits my problem. I have about 150 gbs ...
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Upgrading Mac OS 10.14.6 (Mojave) to Mac OS Ventura having the installer stored and running from a external drive
I'm trying to upgrade Mac OS on my Powerbook. It is currently running Mojave. I've tried a regular (in-place) upgrade but it requires a ridiculous amount of free space on the MacBook Pro disc. The ...
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Setting the nodefs for kubelet
It seems that kubelet uses the default disk for ephemeral storage and logs, but I need to set a soft raid disk. How can I do that?
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Why does du command show wrong size of log directory?
I'm running:
du -h
These are the results:
112K ./YaST2/storage-inst
172K ./YaST2/storage-03
56K ./YaST2/storage-02
48K ./YaST2/storage-01
60K ./YaST2/storage
64K ./YaST2/control-...
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Docker folder size is greater than actual disk space
The du command reports a total size of 276G for my /var/lib/docker. However, the df command says that the actual size of the device where / is mounted is just 219G.
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Extend (C:) Drive while Recovery Partition in between and unable to transfer files
My C: drive is completely filled up, and now I want to allocate some more storage space to it.
Disk Management showing my Disk Memory allocations:
[NOTE] I'll be shrinking (D:) to get unallocated ...
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Corrupt SD card showing as unallocated space on disk management [duplicate]
My SD card showing corrupt on my android phone. I then through SD card reader attach it to pc. When open it in disk management it showing as unallocated space and not accessible at all.
Disk ...
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Wsl distro occupying too much space despite not having so many files in it
I had run a process on wsl that generated large files and significantly ate up the total available disk space in the hard drive that contains the disk image of my distro. I have deleted those files ...
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What may be causing C Drive storage increases of more than 20GB overnight?
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Windows 10 user here. As the title says, somehow overnight my C drive has been populated with 20GB of data overnight. The situation happened recently, and is something new, as it has not ...
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What is the maximum size of a 2.5" HDD? (for laptops)
I'm having a hard time finding a 2.5" hard disk drive that is larger than 2TB is there a reason why that is? So far the only one I could find is the Seagate Barracuda but that's it, nothing from ...
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Used space of a disk is much larger than the size on disk of all files on that disk [duplicate]
I show the properties of D: disk and the used space is 193GB but when i select all files on disk D: and show properties, it displays 92.5GB size on disk.
Please help me explain that.
I tried to clean ...
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ExtensionActivityEdge file is large, can I safely delete it?.. can I stop it's growth?
The ExtensionActivityEdge file is large (3.8 GB -- C:\Users\SomeUserName\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Edge\User Data\Default)...
Can I safely delete it?..
Is there a way to configure it so that I stop/...
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Deleting files doesn't free up disk space, but did increase $BadClus by the file size
System: Windows 11, externally mounted 8TB HDD WD disk NTFS
Used TreeSize Duplicate Search (Jam Software), then deleted some files with the option "Move to Recycle Bin (if available)" turned ...
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Noticed very large space utilisation in linux LVs, how to find which file or what is responsible here?
I have two disks in my server with a LVs created and issue is on the one mounted on /.
I am aware of using find and sort to output the largest for some given number of lines.
like:
find / -type f -...
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OK to delete Windows.db file on PC?
Recently I've been having issues with my personal laptop's hard drive running out of space.
After scanning my PC with WinDirStat I noticed a file named "Windows.db" (located in C:/...
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Can't extend C partition with unallocated space. Due to a recovery partition is next to C drive [duplicate]
I just upgraded my laptop with a 2TB ssd by cloning the old 256G SSD. However I found the C drive volume can not be extended due to a "Recovery partition" is standing in between the ...
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Expand C drive to another empty disk? [duplicate]
Can I convert my disks to dynamic. Then add the free unallocated space from disk 0 to extend C drive volume?
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Epic games launcher redownloading symlinked files
Downloading a 150GB+ game on my SSD, I've symlinked some already downloaded files from the original D:\ directory to C:\ to free up space for new files yet to be downloaded, although symlinking files ...
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How can I figure out what files in AppData\Local\Temp I can delete safely?
My AppData\Local\Temp occupies 200GB, but cleanmgr.exe says
Temporary Files: 1.16MB
Why is there the difference?
How can I figure out what files in the folder I can delete safely?
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How can I add space from my D drive to my C drive with different disks?
I'm running Windows 11 and my D drive has 1.8 TB of free space and my C drive only has about 30 GB left. I tried making unallocated space in my D drive but I couldn't allocate it to the C drive ...
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What is taking up this space on my SSD that was once used as a system disk and how to reclaim it?
My PC came with a 1TB SSD only. (old C: drive)
I had a 500GB SSD added and made that the new C: drive and made the old 1TB SSD the new D: drive
There are no files on D: drive. Yet 47GB is taken up. ...
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WIndows 10: FIle Explorer disk C:\ usage and actual content size don't match
I have quite of a problem.
I have a 120GB SSD with two logical drives. One of them is a system one, 106GB in size. It has about 70GB of files and folders (incl. pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys).
I've ...
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Why does Windows always reports slightly wrong sizes when formatting a disk?
I've installed Windows probably thousands of times since Windows 3.1. I forget the situation in Win 3.1, but from Windows 95 onwards, Windows has never respected partition size reality, and as it's ...
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Is it possible to compact a VirtualBox .vdi image while the guest is running?
I've been searching for that question on Google, on this site and in VirtualBox forums and I couldn't find anything related to it. Since nowadays partitions can be resized, encrypted, cloned, ... ...
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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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INetCache/IE folder contains an incredible amount of files and consumes a lot of disk space?
By using WizTree I discover that inside INetCache\IE folder, there are around 5 million ++ files, and they consume 11.3 GB.
This is strange because
I don't use Internet Explorer on my Windows 10 ...
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How to give extra disk space to root for Ubuntu update?
I'd like to upgrade Ubuntu to 22.04, but I get the following error:
The upgrade has aborted. The upgrade needs a total of 11,4 G free
space on disk '/'. Please free at least an additional 2 817 M of ...
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Can I remove texlive-doc using 2.5 GB?
I'm trying to upgrade to Ubuntu Jammy Jellyfish, but I don't have enough disk space. Can I safely remove /usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/ using a whopping 2.5 GB? I use Latex every day so if removing this ...
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Mapped Google Drive G: showing higher then expected space usage
When I log into the Google Drive web UI, it shows I have used "101.87 GB of 200 GB", so about 98 GB free.
However, when I click "This PC" from my laptop - which I have sync'd with ...
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Tell OneDrive Commercial not to download all of the files on a specific computer?
Is there a way to free up space on a computer by telling OneDrive Commercial, I no longer want to store all of these files on a local hard drive? But keep them on a different computer?
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Moving files under Users folder in C drive to D drive
I wish to move a folder that is located under Users folder in C drive to D drive in order to free up space. The folder is by my name and has things like pictures, downloads, documents, desktop, videos ...
