Questions tagged [disk-space-utilization]
For questions related to disk space utilisation.
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Linux disk space running full
Trying to understand more of Linux and why our diskspace keeps running full with what. Little to none experience with Linux so bear with me
/dev/sda2 is mounted on / and this disk keeps running full
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Can I remove /var/lib/docker/aufs?
My situation is that the server I'm running is at least 5 years old and at some point I upgraded from ubuntu 18.04 to ubuntu 20.04. I know you should not touch /var/lib/docker (here just ./) contents ...
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Monitoring LVM Thin Pool with lvs -a regularly using Zabbix (or any other method)
For my OpenStack setup, I'm using LVM as Cinder Block storage backend. I've created a cinder-volumes vg for Thin Provisioning.
Now, I want to monitor how much that vg is used (not seperate disks in ...
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Shrink/Reduce disk size on a Linux RAID 1 server
i am looking for a way to clone my HDD to SSD without loosing data or the Linux system itself. The problem is the size of current HDD is 1TB and the SSD we got have 480GB, so i can't clone directly ...
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Managing Orphaned .avhdx Files in Hyper-V with PowerShell
I'm managing a Hyper-V environment and looking to clean up my hard drive to free up space. Specifically, I want to delete orphaned .avhdx files and possibly move some to external storage. I prefer ...
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df reports zfs used space as 128K, not the actual used space
I have a ZFS mirror pool in my Proxmox instance. I am trying to get it to mount to an LXC container read-only (preferably not giving full filesystem access) so I can have Homepage detect the used and ...
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VMWare - Lower the size of a disk
We need to lower the size of a VM disk, we have 2 disk in the Virtual Hardware of that virtual machine, one of them is 8TB but at the end, only 600gb is used.
Current configuration:
If we tried to ...
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Windows Server: not enough space on disk (yet still plenty of free space even in the error message itself)
I've got a fileserver running Windows Server and I'm using the storage pool technology to create volumes where I store the files.
I tried to move some files from one of the volumes to another but I ...
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Podman using all disk space
I am running AlmaLinux 9 (RHEL 9 clone), and am new to podman. I have been running my first and only container for a month, and today my disk is full:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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proxmox image import creates an 50GB disk regardless of image size
If I import a disk image for vm 101 from a raw image, it will create an 50GB disk image:
# qm importdisk 101 disk.img local-zfs
importing disk '446-jenkinsmite.img' to VM 101 ...
transferred 0.0 B of ...
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/dev/vda1 is consuming too much space - no space left on device
I am facing a problem during a web service deployment.
The web service runs in a docker container and the first couple of times it started and worked properly.
Last time during the load of the image I ...
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umount a bind source won't work, and device out of space
I think I may have shot myself in the foot. Long ago I tried to backup a old linux machine to a nas using the mount bind command:
mount --bind / /mnt/src
tar -C /mnt/src -c . > /mnt/backup_to_nas/...
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rsync: No space left on device (28)... with a lot of free space
I need to make a copy of 200GB in a 500GB external SSD disk to a 2TB NVMe M2 SSD, which has more than 1TB free. All my other disks and partitions have lots of GBs of free space, too (well, except for ...
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Windows Server 2016: Users dir taking over C: drive due to high load. Can I set a default location for new and current user AppData on another drive?
I'm working with a virtual Windows Server 2016 that's C: drive is filling up due to a high number of Users (over 2,000). The server acts as a Citrix host, which is leading to AppData dirs averaging ...
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Discrepancy in file usage after rsync
I copied files from an exFAT filesystem to an ext4 filesystem:
sudo rsync -avz /media/user/1TB-SD-EX/ -e ssh example.com:/data/pc/sd1tb
After successful run I check source and destination size with ...
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