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Diagnosing large usage on WSL volume
I am new to Ubuntu, I just use it through WSL to run Docker. I found that there is around 40GB being used and I'm trying to find out why.
I have run the following commands
df -ah
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Why does "nautilus"(Gnome FIles) gives me so smaller size of directory, compared with "du"?
I have uncompressed a folder and if I right click in the folder and click properties, I get from nautilus (Gnome Files)
Gnome Files output:
but instead if I do:
$ du -sh *
292M branches
236M ...
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Low Disk Space on "Filesystem Root" in Ubuntu
I keep getting this message (Low Disk Space on "Filesystem Root") every time I open Ubuntu. I run Ubuntu on VMware Workstation. I installed some packages for a simulator that I want to use ...
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Ubuntu not recognizing full RAID disk on Dell Poweredge R720
On installation the system only gives me the ability to install on a 3.5tb section of my hard drives. However the system is configured with 3625gb of storage.
When typing sudo fdisk -l it responds as ...
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How to give space for sda2 from sda4(/dos)
I have got too much not used space in sda4(/dos) folder
But, actually my space in sda2 is about to end :(
So, the question is: Is there a way to make available space for sda4 from 90GB to for ...
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Disk on root is almost full but can't find which files take the space
Ubuntu 22.04 Desktop
If I do df -h i can see that my root folder is almost full
And when I list the files in the folder, seems to me they are all system needed files.
I tried to look a bit into it ...
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need help interpreting fdisk and gnome-disk-utility output
I am on a fresh Ubuntu Server 22.04 install and during install, I think I might have chosen a filesystem which I do not understand:
cat /etc/*release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=22.04
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Confused about disk growth and usage
This is my first question ever posted, so I hope I will provide what you need up front.
The quick question is: why is my 2TB drive showing almost completely full when all df -h, du, or sudo du -hsx ...
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mv fails with "No space left on device" when the destination has 31 GB of space remaining
I've been trying to move 32.6 GB of files to a folder on an external flashdrive to free up space on my laptop's SSD. After opening up the source folder in Terminal (and running ulimit -S -s unlimited ...
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FileSystem partition is ignored
I recently installed Ubuntu 20.04 on my computer and I created 4 partitions.
For some reason the main partition containing 460GB is not allocated to the home disk space.
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Low disk space on Filesystem root despite having plenty of space in `home`
I just got this warning
I tried to follow this and this questions, but I fail to understand why this is happening when I still have a lot of space available in home:
df -h
Filesystem ...
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Where to find logs for "Low Disk Space"
After seeing the window popping up that shows
Low disk space | The volume "Filesystem root" has only X MB disk space remaining.
Where can we find the log file that logs this low disk space ...
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Why does it display "Filesystem root" almost full when I have almost 35GB worth of free space?
I tried unzipping a 37MB RAR file, but system says root is full.
I used sudo baobab / to check, and it shows that / takes up 14.1GB. It acknowledges the fact that the free space exists, but it still ...
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Cannot install pip module because there is 'no space' left on device
When I try to install the pytorch module for python3.8 pip complains that there is no space left on the device e.g.
$ pip3 install torch
Collecting torch
Using cached torch-1.8.1-cp38-cp38-...
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"low Disk Spac on Filesystem root" ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Distributor ID: Ubuntu
Description: Ubuntu 20.04.2 LTS
Release: 20.04
Codename: focal
df -h output:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3,8G 0 3,8G 0% /dev
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Timeshift unanswered questions
I'm new to Linux and found out the hard way about the virtues of keeping a backup I can restore my system from. So I am trying Timeshift and have some questions about what's going on under the hood.
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Opinion on what my disk usage analyzer shows
I recently installed Ubuntu and it's pretty slow on my machine: 12GB memory, 96GB SSD (where the OS run") and 1TB HDD
I've only installed anaconda-navigator and some extensions... nothing at all, ...
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The DF command and deciphering it [duplicate]
I've been using Linux for about 4 weeks now, more specifically Ubuntu. I wanted to find the remaining disk space I have left and was told that the df command will give me all the information I need to ...
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Low disk space on filesystem root despite GParted showing 8GB free
I keep getting the error message "low disk space on filesystem root, 200MB remaining.." message, but when I check disk usage it shows me 8GB free?
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Why does the home folder eats few gigabytes(say 6gb) of its allocated space where that space lies and used for what?
Recently i installed timeshift for backup system recovery....it ate up half of the drive and i decided to uninstall timeshift.... and i decided to clean up the system as well by referring to some ...
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Low Disk Space on "Filesystem root", Ubuntu 20.04.1 [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 20.04.1.
While installing Ubuntu for the Desktop, I read that 15-20 GB is more than enough for Filesystem root.
But now I am facing this error:
Low Disk Space on "Filesystem ...
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Accidentally removed pacct file
I see that the /var is occupied upto 99% and observed that the pacct file has occupied 13G and tried copying to other directory and then accidentally did rm pacct post that I did
> pacct as per ...
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How to solve /dev/xvda1 100% usage issue?
OS: Ubuntu 18.04
/ ext4 filesystem
As I did a "df -h", it shows that my "/dev/xvda1" is 100% full. I cannot even do a "tab" to list all folders/files under current ...
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Block device full - how do I clear space
I'm a relatively basic user, using the Ubuntu terminal for Windows. I have a failing deployment caused by a lack of disk space on the VM I'm connected to in the terminal:
df -h
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Read-only file system Ubuntu 20.04
I've switched from Windows10 to Ubuntu 20.04. After that a problem popped up with the 'D disk' or the 1Tb file system that is part of my computer hardware (I am pretty sure this is called HDD). I am ...
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Filesystem Root Disk Space too Low - Syslog Too Big [duplicate]
I have been reading as much as I can about this problem but I am under deadline pressure (the only time these problems seem to occur). None of the answers on similar questions provide much clarity. I ...
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Disable automatic ZSys snapshots - ZFS on root
How can I disable the automatic ZFS snapshots on Ubuntu 20.04 with ZFS on root?
zsys seems to create snapshots but doesn't seem to remove them, which causes my system to run out of disk space.
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How do I increase my sdb4 partition to include allocated space?
The unallocated space is shown here having 22GB and the size I want to increase is that of /dev/sdb4
Please do help :)
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18.04 low disk space - using 640GB and more in /var/log/syslog.1 [duplicate]
I've noticed several posts about this same topic, but found no reasonable solution. This post suggests deleting the files, but I want to avoid that since I'm using apache and that same post says that ...
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Filesystem root low disk space
I guess this is probably some bug, but my system has been complaining about low disk space since yesterday, and it halts the execution of some scripts that I run as a result. However, the disk with my ...
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Why does my Ubuntu system use more disk space than how much it describes so?
I've recently installed Ubuntu 18.04 release (18.04.3 LTS) on my HP Pavilion laptop, wiping previously installed Windows 10 including all the data it had.
Since then, I've encountered many problems, ...
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2nd drive fills up storage space on root file system
Running Ubuntu 18.04 of a 256GB SSD with full disk encryption and an additional 1TB harddisk mounted for larger files. I keep getting "Low on space" notifications because "The filesystem root /" is ...
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Which folders are in /dev/sde3?
How to see which folders are in /dev/sde3 ?
df -h
/dev/sde3 39G 32G 4.8G 87% /
Doing:
cd /
sudo du -d 1 -h | sort -hr
Also shows me folders like:
/dev/sde4 ...
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'No space left on device' for a non-system partition
I am using Xubuntu 16.04, it is installed on sda5. sda3 is a partition where I store my files. Xubuntu is complaining that there is no disk space for sda3. Simple operations such as copy/paste files ...
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Filesystem - No space left error, but there is space
I have a problem with a server running Ubuntu 16.04.05. After running a python script who created more than 65 million of files I have an error message saying that I have no space left:
12 zip -r 31....
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how to access/use non-partition disk
i am using Ubuntu 16.04 and want to access/use different disk in the server(following disks):
lsblk
NAME MAJ:MIN RM SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT
sda 8:0 0 372G 0 ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 - root filesystem full
My root filesystem is full. how can I fix the problem? I allocated 15G to root which I understand should be sufficient, I wonder if I have configured the partitions correctly. there might be a ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 filesystem filling up
My filesystem is filling up and i have no idea of what. I logged into the system and / was 100% full. After a restart space usage was down to normal again. After about half a day / is at 80% again. ...
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Ubuntu /dev/loopX - Way too many mounted units [duplicate]
I am not a very experienced user, specially regarding system's technicalities such as this one. All I know is that when I first installed Ubuntu, I used the command df -h to check my disk space. It ...
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disk full with large partition and small root filesystem
I'm running out of disk, but don't know what is using it up. DiskUsageAnalyzer can't see the problem either.
More Details:
df shows the disk getting full
$ df -k /
Filesystem 1K-blocks ...
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df shown size much smaller than partition size, /home full
I'm having trouble at the moment because my /home partition appears to be full and its usable space seems to be much smaller than the actual disk, which is the confusing part.
this is the line in ...
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running out of drive space. Which files to move?
I installed ubuntu on a spare laptop and made the mistake of only partitioning 5 gigs for the install. i am already down to about 800 megs of free space. This install is only for learning cmds and ...
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Unable to copy files from local system to local server
When I am trying copy data onto a local server in our college LAN from my local system, I'm getting this error
No space left on device
However, I am able to copy onto my colleague's system who ...
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Can I store files under /var?
My PC is running out of space. I need a temporary solution to store some files.
When I installed the system I created a partition where /var is mounted with 50GB, and currently it has around 40 GB ...
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`du` shows non zero size of empty catalog [duplicate]
I know, that when I create empty catalog it has his own size:
mkdir test && du -h test
gives:
4,0K test
But this case is another. I had catalog with 1e6 files (74 GB) on external HDD (...
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Ran out of inodes - 100% Full [duplicate]
I am using Ubuntu 16.04 on AWS EC2 instance which has been working fine until this problem.
My problem is that I've used 100% of available inodes, as I discovered with this command:
$ df -i
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Unable to free diskspace by removing files and not restarting the computer (hibernation possible)
I have a similar problem to the one mentioned here: Unable to free up space in df but I can not reboot (I have important data in the memory).
The output of df -h / is:
Filesystem Size Used ...
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No space left on device even with only 44% usage and 3% inode usage
Recently I downloaded a large dataset (~100GB) containing lots of images and small txt files in a .zip file. When I try to unzip it using unzip dataset.zip, the first 30% unzipped fine but then it ...
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Root partition size differences among different tools
I just finished running 'Disk Usage Analyzer' on my root partition, /dev/sda3 with a total of 122.5G.
The Analyzer reports that only 26.8GB of space has been used but my root partition is showing 68....
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Too much space occupied by several filesystems
Here is the output of the df -h command on my recently set up Ubuntu 16.04.01
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 3,9G 0 3,9G 0% /dev
tmpfs 790M 9,...
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