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Is there a way I can check which block of disk is really used?

I use df and du to check disk usage of centos,then I get different results from these tools. [root@localhost home]# df -Th Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/...
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use du to exclude mounted volumes but check root volume only

I am trying to check my disk usage, because my root volume is full. I'm on Centos 7.5. I thought that giving du the -x flag gets it to ignore mounted volumes. But when I check my disk usage on this ...
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Inconsistent output of `du` command

Why is the output of du -sch ./ not identical to du -sch ./* E.g. I ran du -sch in my user's home directory and got 51GB but running du -sch * in the same directory results in 47GB. At first I ...
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how to increase the space on docker in CentOS7?

How can I increase the space on this docker? I need to transfer 30G of images into this docker to do the image processing within the docker however seems I only have 2G available $ sudo docker pull ...
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Is normal this /usr/share/locale/zun/LC_MESSAGES/temp file size on my server 7.3G?

I have a server on CentOS Linux mydomain.com 2.6.32-504.16.2.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Apr 22 06:48:29 UTC 2015 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux I see the folder /usr/ with more than 18G. When I do a ...
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Centos 6.5 directory size is incorrect using du command

I 'm running the du command on one of my websites directories and I'm getting 2 different result, I'm confused which one is accurate and why there is a big difference, here both command and the output....
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What will happen if my DB server runs out of disk space?

I'm seeing a huge difference of free disk space between df -h and du -sxh / I've understood in my question Resolving unix server disk space not adding up that du -sxh / is a better estimation as ...
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How to know the directory size in CENTOS [duplicate]

I have a website on my server and I own it. The size of the website is around a whopping 170GB. This shouldn't be this much. At most, it should be around 20GB. I don't know what makes it that big. I ...
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