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Why am I getting “Can't have overlapping partitions” errors with Proxmox on Ubuntu?
I have increased the disk size in the Proxmox settings and am now attempting to resize the disk size of the Ubuntu client. Unfortunately, when I try to execute the command resizepart 5 100%, I ...
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When rotating and shrinking video, which one should I do first?
I'm using FFMPEG to re-encode some videos, while rotating and shrinking them.
Which one should I do first, considering:
Output quality
Output size
Encoding speed
I am aware I can rotate without any ...
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How to reduce file size of workbook that references links?
So I have a project where is receive 1500+ .csv sheets of data. Each file size is about 12kb and contains one column with timestamps, and one column with data that i need to extract based on the ...
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Folder and Sub-Folder Size for Network Drive
I need to see an active list of folders in my Network Drive INCLUDING the folder size. When I expend a directory, I want to see folder size for all Sub-Folders.
Requirement: Network Drive!
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How to sort folders by a specific subfolder's size?
I need a command line utility (preferably for Windows 10 but Linux (Debian) is fine too) to sort folders based on a subdirectory size. For example I have multiple mods for a Steam game, and each mod ...
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Problems changing the paper size in printer driver settings
I am loosing my mind over a simple problem. I want to print a word document on photo paper as I organise my notes in a Zettelkasten. But somewhere in the chain, the paper size seems to be wrong, the ...
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Why is my SD card showing less capacity than advertised?
I bought a 64GB Samsung EVOPlus SD card from a vendor on Ebay the other day.
!ddg 64 gb to gib
A screenshot of the website duckduckgo.com showing the conversion of 64 gigabytes to gibibytes, yielding ...
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How can I add current file size to the file name
I lost heaps of important data, plus failed backups etc. I did some recoveries but laptop drive had other plans, pushed data out of valid files + some recovery files had mismatched names or recovered ...
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Windows Start Menu keeps resizing to narrow (1 column) size
I have Win 10 22H2 installed, managed by my company. By default, my Start Menu is one column wide (I'm showing only the tiles). I have enough tiles so for accessing the lower tiles, I have to scroll ...
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Word file with emoji results in bigger PDF file after export
I have updated my CV in Word by adding rating of my skills and used the star emoji (⭐) to categorize my skill by experience (i.e., by number of stars). My Word document size didn't increase that much ...
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Scale PDF page size _without_ adding white background
I have a PDF containing an A5 page. For reasons, I want to "rescale" that page to be A4-sized - but not by adding margin/padding; I want the actual content scaled. i.e. the opposite of what ...
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Is Windows (Network) Folder Size accurate?
We have a program that adds columns to various Excel files daily. One way we try to track that it is working is checking the overall folder size and seeing if it increases. The numbers however do not ...
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Improve Size in Exasol Docker Image
My Goal: I need to improve the Volume Size of Exasol from 4GiB to 10GiB
What I use:
Exasols official Github Repo/ Docker Image:
https://github.com/exasol/docker-db/
https://hub.docker.com/layers/...
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Changing Video's Sound with another sound with using Shotcut
I want to replace the sound of the video file I have with another video file. I use a program called Shotcut. I have a 250 mb video, mkv file, audio in opus. I change the sound with Shotcut and select ...
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Why files in AppData directories not adding to space left on drive
I have some backup files that get created from a game I play that are stored in the following directory:
C:\Users\username\AppData\Roaming\.gameiplay\backups
These backups can get relatively large in ...
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my drive shows size on disk very smaller than its actual size
I have check there is no compression check on ntfs settings but still also 1 TB file shows 60 GB on disk.
How is this possible ?
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How to calculate the minimum size for a FAT partition to fit given files?
Is there a way to calculate how big a partition needs to be to fit a file (or several files of a given size)?
Let's say I want to make a FAT32 partition on a usb drive and store 1 Gb file (or two 500 ...
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How to move free space from end of vm disk to resize(grow) primary partition on qemu hypervisor?
I was able to add space to my vm, but am at a loss for how to shuffle it from the end of the disk to resize the primary partition. Appreciate your input if you are knowledgeable about how to do this.....
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What file properties affect the size of a video file?
This question is related to one I just posted on Stack Overflow about the meaning of the Windows shell file property "Video compression".
For a set of 71 video files, I'm looking at their ...
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How to prevent large file size in JPEG-PDF roundtrip conversion?
TL;DR: File size doubled in roundtrip conversion between JPEG and PDF. Tools used : poppler and imagemagick
I am doing this
Extract images from a pdf containing only images (scanned document), via ...
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95% of a partition on my external HDD is invisible and disk analyzing programs can't find it
On my 2TB external HDD is a NTFS primary partition 480GB large.
Combined size of the files present is 18.5 GB, mostly the pagefile.sys and the free space is 256MB. 18.5GB + 250MB is about 18.75GB, ...
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Unable to Change Font Size of Inkscape Guideline Label
Introduction
I've successfully created labeled guidelines in Inkscape (version 1.1.1) using the following steps:
Guidelines can be created by dragging from either of the rulers.
Upon double-clicking ...
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smartctl NVMe SSD : what is "Maximum Data Transfer Size"?
I just noticed a Maximum Data Transfer Size spec on both my NVMe SSDs (128 pages in one case, and 64 pages in another). What exactly is this ? Is it the same as EBS (Erase Block Size, see Is partition ...
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Overriding The Notepad++ File Size Limit
I had a text file I was working with in Notepad++, which I accidentally closed and now I can't open it again because it says "File is too big to be opened by Notepad++".
I was editing it ...
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How to resize a linux raid-1 volume?
my some-years-old linux server has four raid-1 volumes:
/dev/md1 on /boot type ext4
/dev/md2 on / type ext4
/dev/md3 on /home type ext4
/dev/md4 on /data type ext4
The four volumes are stored in this ...
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Thunderbird change default font and size
I love using Thunderbird for checking all my mail accounts, including Gmail and Outlook. However, I'm having a difficult time trying to locate a setting to change the default font and size. It seems ...
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Move a given volume (size) of files
Need to move any given quantity of files from a given type (csv in example) from ./source to a ./target folder and that:
the total size of all files moved is below a given value SrcMax
files are ...
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Size of users' recycle bins on Windows Server 2019?
Is there a way to show the size of a recycle bin for each user in Windows Server 2019?
(Or, perhaps, calculate such sizes via PowerShell and then display them in a neat table?)
We may have runaway ...
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Font changes after reply in Outlook 2010
I have a user that sends mails with default font Arial size 12 but when the mail is sent it changes automatically to Arial size 10.
So the user is typing with Arial 12 but when it's sent it's Arial 12....
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How to delete all files in all subdirectories while keeping the biggest file in each subdirectory under Linux? [duplicate]
This is my first question, thank you for allowing me to ask and for reading my question!
I am under Ubuntu 22.04 w. GNOME Shell and the bash shell.
I have a folder with over 800 subdirectories.
Each ...
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Huge File Size with Embedded Font (Used Characters Only) in PowerPoint
I have a PowerPoint file. I used 2 custom fonts on my document, so I decided to embed the fonts in the file using the "Embed Fonts" option available in PowerPoint.
Settings Screen
Without ...
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How to increase size of "legacy" UI on Win11?
I have a Surface Book 2 running Windows 11. It has a 3240x2160 resolution, so I've used both the Display's "scale" and Accessibility's "text size" features to zoom stuff in, and so ...
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How to open a file in Notepad in a given window size?
I have a small text file1 used as memo, that I wish to open in a corner of my screen. I know PostIts-like apps but, here, the need is file1.txt with 4 short lines.
I can't find an option in the ...
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Why does the file size of the a being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive has, and how can I avoid that?
I transfer some files from a GoPro (connected via MTP) to an external hard drive. I notice that for the file size of the file being transferred depends on how much free space the external hard drive ...
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I would Like to know what -sb and awk '{print $1}' role in this command
subdirectory_size=$(du -sb "$entry" | awk '{print $1}').
I would Like to know what -sb and awk '{print $1}' role in this command.
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Swapping partitions in openbsd
After a regular openbsd installation I have this partition scheme:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity Mounted on
/dev/sd0a 986M 111M 826M 12% /
/dev/sd0k 46.4G ...
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how to display the size of USB/SD peripherals in my batch?
I made a small batch file to display the size, name and id of USB sticks and SD cards connected to a PC for test purposes. I tried to use :~0,-9% to shorten the size displayed in bytes, this works ...
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Changing the mac desktop icon resize shortcut in finder
By default finder has a keyboard shortcut for changing icon size/zoom, ⌘ = and ⌘ -.
If you are like me you press these on accident and the result is desktop icons all over the place as the grid ...
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How to resize video but do not stretch/modify original video using ffmpeg
Im pretty bad at video editing/property terms. Sorry in advance.
Green = Input video
Red = Output video
Sorry if this doesnt make sense. But can this be possibly achieved?
I tried searching for ...
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Why does pressing enter increase the file size by 2 bytes in windows
I'm using File Explorer to monitor file size in Windows.
I have a .dat file and when I type normal characters like letters the file size increases by 1 byte but when I press enter the file size ...
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Inkscape: Importing SVG file produces unusably huge object in document
So the ultimate goal here is to produce a 600dpi vector file for use with a digital printer.
I've gone to great lengths to insure that all the original images (png) are 600 dpi. These average 5-8 ...
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What is the reason for size reduction after conversion from mkv to mp4 with ffmpeg
I converted a larger group of mkvs to mp4 (with the commandline:
for i in $(ls *.mkv); do ffmpeg -i $i ${i/mkv/mp4}; done
but also some with
ffmpeg -i video.mkv video.mp4
The outcome differs in size ...
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How do I stop MS Word from resizing the page width when I resize the window?
I'm using MS Word 2016 in Windows. Whenever I change the width of the window, the page size changes. That is, I click-and-drag on the right border of the window and make it, say, a little wider. When ...
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Firefox: How to resize "Add bookmark folder" window?
Right-clicking on the Bookmarks Toolbar and selecting "Add Folder..." shows the "Add bookmark folder" window.
I am using Firefox 107.0.1/Latest version (Windows).
How do I resize ...
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Compression Enabled, smaller IS expected, BUT 3,000 files, Size=25GB but Size on Disk only 5MB?
I've looked & keep finding lots of articles telling me what I already know.
I know the file size difference is because I have Compress contents to save disk space enabled.
I know about the ...
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rsync: identical files (contents, size, timestamp) between source and destination are not being seen as identical
NOTE: Sadly, it turns out that this has nothing to do with file timestamps.
Per the info given in that other post, I tried --modify-window=30 and even --modify-window=300, but that did not change the ...
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With `ls -sh` is 1K a kilobyte, a kilobit, 1000 bytes, 1024 bytes, or what?
Preface to my question (this isn't my question):
I've been looking for a command-line tool to that tells me how many bytes, kilobytes, megabytes, gigabytes, etc. that a file is (not some other form of ...
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VBox .vdi resize succeeded. Still not able to store more data on the .vdi
I'm using Virtual Box Version 6.1.34 on Linux Mint 20. I ran out of space on one of my virtual machines (Guest OS: Xubuntu 20.04.3 LTS on dynamic .vdi image). Was 10G, resized to 100G.
I attempted the ...
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How to create a file (placeholder?) with nonzero (>1k) size but 0 size on disk, on windows? [duplicate]
Just like a file that is "online-only" in dropbox, which shows its original size in the ntfs system, at the same time 0 bytes on disk?
I am aware that if the file size is smaller than 1k ...
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Is the file size of the file manager more accurate or from du? [duplicate]
The Problem
I'm currently playing with some VMs and made a backup by exporting the VM in the Open Virtualization Format 2.0 because nested snapshots take too much space.
When I checked the taken space ...
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