Questions tagged [disk-usage]
Disk space usage: how much space do my files take?
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How can I find what’s using space in my root LVM (/dev/mapper/ol_wglsbi02-root) on RHEL / Oracle Linux?
I inherited two servers, a production server (wglsbi02) and a mirror/backup server (wglsbi01), that were originally set up by someone who has since left the company. I’m not an experienced system ...
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Interpreting results of du -sh on different file systems
I have a collection of *.jpg files and intend to do some ImageMagick on them. Making a backup and checking, du -sh gives 762M on vfat and 5.6G on exfat. Why is that? Is it a bug or a feature?
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Linux Mint: /var/log shows 165GB disk usage but no large files found
My Linux Mint system reports that /var/log occupies 165 GB of space, but all subdirectories and files within it are small (total <100 MB). This is causing the root partition (/) to fill up, ...
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df shows 539G used on /apps, but du shows only 47G — unexplained disk usage discrepancy
I have a problem and I don't know what the problem is. df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda4 5.0G 113M 4.9G 3% / /dev/mapper/appsvg-...
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How much disk space is needed to compile a Linux kernel in a VM?
I just coded two system calls using the Linux 6.12.1 kernel, and I transferred the kernel to a Lubuntu virtual machine with 25 GB space (on Virt-Manager/KVM), but when I compile the new kernel, I get ...
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Root filesystem is completely full [closed]
everyone. I have a completely filled root filesystem, but I can't figure out what it is. sudo df -h / /dev/nvme0n1p2 49G 49G 0 100% / sudo du -h --max-depth=1 --exclude="media" --...
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MySQL general_log.CSV is 47GB in Production – How to Free Space?
I’m managing a production MySQL server running on a VM, and I just discovered that the general_log.CSV file in /var/lib/mysql/mysql/ has grown to 47GB, consuming almost 70% of the disk space. Here’s ...
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how to find files that bloats a specific partition? [duplicate]
My title may not be the best so I will try to explain it. I am using an old computer (more than 10y) with a ubuntu style distro. It has a lot of independent partitions. I recently had an alert telling ...
