The amount of computer storage space on devices, such as hard drive, floppy or USB flash drive.
Questions tagged [disk-space]
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Compact disk utilizes 650 of 700 Mb
A normal compact disk has a size of 700 MB but it only holds data upto 650 MB. What is the other 50 MB utilized for?
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Over 20GB of disk space is gone?
System drive, OS is Windows 7 x64 SP1 Ultimate.
Windows Explorer shows 100GB of used space.
TreeSizeFree shows 75GB of used space.
Total Commander and FAR confirm TreeSizeFree's measurements (counting hidden files).
Shadow copy is using up to…
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What is temporarily using my sbs 2003 disk space
We have a drive space alert that is happening twice every day at about 6:40am and 12:40pm. I don't want to alter the alert but I do want to find where the drive space is going. I have carefully examined the scheduled tasks and none of them are…
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How to delete / remove a 500G cloud station database
I have 250M of data on cloud station that is sync'ed between severil computers.
When I checked the database size it reported it was 500G!
I have deleted versions, removed deleted files, but still he database is 500G.
How can I manually remove the…
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Disk usage command df not showing the expected values in output
The df /data command is not showing the exact disk usage information.
This is what I get as output:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/mapper/VolGroup-lvol0
41153856 2099892 36956812 6% …
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Logging when /tmp full
I'm trying to track a bug which corrupted some tables in mysql and I need to know, what happens if /tmp gets full at the same time some update query executes, will it fail? If does, where does this get logged? If doesn't is there a way to log…
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Low Disk Space notification, how can I stop that?
I had formatted my drive to create Drive E:, wherein I will be putting my files.
It's 15 GB, then I encrypted almost 14.999gb of it, I know that its really Low Disk Space, because I created an ecrypted folder in it.
How can I stop the notification…
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Find and free disk space that is unused but unavailable (due to file system error, etc.)
Sometimes I get the feeling that if an app such as μTorrent allocates files on my FAT32-formatted flash drive, but then is killed or crashes (as happens more than a few times a month), that space just disappears from my file system.
Whether or not…
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Docker folder size is greater than actual disk space
The du command reports a total size of 276G for my /var/lib/docker. However, the df command says that the actual size of the device where / is mounted is just 219G.
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb2 219G 185G 24G …
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Windows 10 Temp folder taking up a lot of space
I need some help. The %systemdrive%\Windows\Temp folder grows really quickly and can reach 25GB in a few days. Most of the files in it are event log files. I tried searching this up, but I didn't find anything useful. This is getting annoying as i…
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