For questions related to disk space utilisation.
For questions related to disk space utilisation.
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free disk vs available disk
what is the difference between available and free disk space?
see image below:
http://alvarberglind.se/disk.png
Alvar
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Tools for tracking disk usage
I manage a number of linux fileservers. These all run applications written from 0-10 years ago. As sometimes happens, a machine will come close to, or run out of disk space. Reasons include applications not rotating log files, a machine with 500GB…
Carey
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Setting up disk quota on ubuntu for multiple users
I have a separate /home partition with ext4 filesystem. I have about 200 users whose usernames have a common prefix (e.g. 2010...). I have to allot 500 MB space limit (hard limit) for each users home directory. Instead of specifying space one by one…
nixnotwin
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May I delete exim4 files?
I'm running out of inodes, I discovered that there are ~155000 files in var/spool/exim4/input - may I safely delete those files?
I found out that exim4 is some kind of emailer - but I believe I don't need it.
Konrad
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pwrite: No space left on device. df -i, df -h okay
On a Rackspace cloud server I see:
admin@foo:/etc/nginx$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Starting nginx: nginx: [crit] pwrite() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (28: No space left on device)
nginx.
admin@foo:/etc/nginx$ sudo df -h
Filesystem Size …
Brian
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/dev/vda1 is consuming too much space - no space left on device
I am facing a problem during a web service deployment.
The web service runs in a docker container and the first couple of times it started and worked properly.
Last time during the load of the image I received the "no space left on device" error…
Tibor Janosi
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Find files or directories that consume my disk
I have twin server they are made from the same google cloud images.
tunnel1 I had flushed the log files and disk space has been claimed back
tunnel2 I did the same thing, but it does not get me back the spaces.
I have tried manually search the with…
Stone
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increase root partition for linux?
My problem : my root path is full
$ df -H
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 17G 0 17G 0% /dev
tmpfs 3.4G 170M 3.2G 6% /run
/dev/md1 21G 21G 0 100% /
tmpfs 17G 0 17G…
Matrix
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Log file filled disked. Removed log file and disk still full
Somehow my work-in-progress Python server filled the rootfs partition by logging 50gb of data to /tmp/blabla.log, which I noticed by basic commands failing like this:
root@server:/# crontab -e
/tmp/crontab.FfvjqH: No space left on device
So, I did…
Jurriaan Roelofs
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Linux: How to find - without du or find - the largest or fastest-growing file or directory on a disk?
Every so often one or other of our servers will announce that it's at 90% disk capacity, and we go to run some variant of 'du' on it, to drill down and find what's so big or what's growing quickly, and of course that takes more and more time on…
Tim Baverstock
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How to extend root disk
Trying to figure out how to take from the 200G disk at /dev/sde and add that to root...or maybe the way to say it is how do I extend / into /dev/sde?
I've only ever dealt with lvm before or at least disks that have partitions that can be extended. …
tadamhicks
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How to change disk space quota on Plesk 11
I have recently migrated a few domains on a Plesk 9 server to a new Plesk 11 server.
The old Plesk 9 server had just 5GB of disk space, so I put disk space quotas on the domains hosted on it.
The new Plesk 11 server has 50GB of disk space, but…
Martijn
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DISKWarn Running out of space
I have a dedicated server and for the past few days i am getting these email notifications about the file system running out of space. I am looking for the best and easiest way to fix this. Any suggestions are appreciated. This is the message I am…
Harrison Samuel
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