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du command with -h option modifies the displayed result
trying to understand the basics of du command is not that simple for me . For instance there is this -h option which is defined as printing in "human readable format" . The problem is that ...
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Using ncdu, how to know the number of items in current dir, not total count in childtree
I love using ncdu to browse files in Debian (and also MacOS), yet I can't figure out a way to display the number of items in the current directory, rather than the total amount of files including all ...
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Inconsistent du output on /usr
First here is the size of /usr :
$ sudo du -sh /usr
6.2G /usr
$
When doing a du on the directories at the / and selecting /usr, I get this :
$ sudo du -sh /*/ | grep /usr
du: cannot access '/proc/...
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2T file system full! du says only 70G consumed. Where is the rest?
When I run
df / I get
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/ubuntu--vg-ubuntu--lv 2.0T 1.9T 0 100% /
When I run
sudo ncdu -x /
I get
Total disk usage: ...
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Synology NAS: deleted files but space won't go down
I've been facing this problem with my Synology lately: I use the Download Station to download torrents in the folder /volume3/video.
I now have downloaded 43 files and I can list them running the ...
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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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Linux: inconsistency reported by 'du'
xrfang@lky-web-02:/tmp/nnrres/ready$ ls -alh
total 249M
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 249M Oct 27 08:29 .
drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4.0K Oct 17 22:35 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 303 Oct 24 13:11 ...
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How to check what was moved when using “mv” and the process stops due to permissions issues?
I want to move a folder (test) on our server from /home/data to /home/projects/data. What I did is to use mv.
It did not move the folder in the end for some permission problems. However, the folder ...
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Odd behavior by 'du' with `dd` on a BTRFS disk showing 0 filesize.. Anyone got some clues or thoughts around it?
Been tinkering with btrfs with consideration of moving from ext4 to that.
However, when wanting to compare R/W speeds, I seem to have come across an (to me at least) unusual behavior by du on the ...
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Excluding current folder when using du
I'm trying to read the size of the files in a folder using du -ah, but the output keeps showing me the current directory information( . ).
I was wondering if there's some flag I can use with du to ...
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How can I find out the capacity of the nfs mounted directory on the disk?
I cloud not find files filling the disk. df -h command print out / part usage %86 ( capacity is 15G ) but du -sh / command print out 3G.
I am using nfs share on my system. the nfs mounted to /mnt. i ...
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Where is `shared-du` (`reflink-tools`)?
The OCFS2 manual page describing reflink snapshots describes a tool named shared-du, together with examples.
However I'm unable to locate that tool on the web.
Where can I find it?
Citing from the ...
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How to fix du tab alignment?
I'd like to get the du output in neat columns.
This is what I get:
du -sh * | sort -hr
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48M app
11M lib
6.7M image.jpg
1.1M image2.jpg
488K code.c
488K code.py
72K doc.txt
16K notes....
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Is it safe to delete contents of /root/.cache folder to free up space?
I need to free up disk space on my linux server.
I run the df command to check space ad see that I'm using up 100% of disk space.
myserver:/ # df /
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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How to check the directory size using find command?
I would like to list the directories which is having size more than 10MB. I tried the same using find command but find command is not giving result with size and type option. It is working with any of ...
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