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How much can the space allocated for an LVM snapshot be reduced?
I created an LVM snapshot, then I modified the original logical volume, and now I see that I probably allocated too much space to hold the snapshot. And I want to reclaim some free space by reducing ...
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RedHat Linux Space Usage Problem
I recently downloaded something on my Redhat Linux computer, and it told me I was out of space. I checked my disk usage, and it says I've used 100% of my folder, but as you can see I still have almost ...
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Finding Writeable Remaining Space
I work for an organization where we employees are alloted separate space on a remote server.
I SSH to that server, and the using du I get to know that free space shown is around 2 GB.
But not all can ...
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ext4 used space (not -m option, not deleted files)
I'm a bit puzzled about the way ext4 reports used space. On a new Debian wheezy (testing) installation, I consistently got about 1GB extra space used with a 60GB SSD, when compared to du. I then ...
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How big should the rootfs partition should be on Arch Linux?
I've installed ArchLinux yesterday and set up a 10 GB partition for the root file system, 256 MB for swap, and the rest (456 GB) for my /home.
However I still have 4.0 GB left on my root file system ...
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Is there a way of deleting duplicates more refined than fdupes -rdN?
Recently I have the need to delete a lot of duplicates. I am merging three or four filesystems, and I want the space to be used economically. At first, fdupes seemed like it was the best tool for the ...
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Why does the “du” command count in 4KB steps? [closed]
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Directory size calculation difference
I don't understand how the du command under Linux works.
I wanted to count the overall size of a few hundred, small files and du ...
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Tell fs to free space from deleted files NOW
Is there a way to tell the kernel to give back the free disk space now? Like a write to something in /proc/ ? Using Ubuntu 11.10 with ext4.
This is probably an old and very repeated theme.
After ...
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Are .bz2 files inside /var/lib/pengine safe to delete?
My problem is that my /var partition is over 80% (total size: 4.9G). I was reviewing the files into this partition and I saw a file which has 3.4G. (/var/lib/pengine)
I dig into that /pengine file ...
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“ls -lh” reports total size less than sum of individual sizes
Under what circumstances would ls -lh show a total that is less than the sum of the individual files? For example:
$ ls -lh /var/lib/nova/instances/_base
total 100G
-rw-rw-r-- 1 nova nova ...
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Why is my /home separate from /?
I was confused why I was getting out of space errors so I ran df and saw this:
[me@fedlap /]$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 43G ...
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du reports surprising total size for same data
Don't worry, this isn't typical "du vs. df" question. :-)
I mounted a squashfs image (via loop) and used du to reported the size: du --apparent-size -lsh image1/ which reported 215M. Then I used rsync ...
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Does /var keep growing in size?
tldp.org quotes /var as:
Files in /var/log can often grow indefinitely, and may require
cleaning at regular intervals.
So without cleaning, using a system for a long enough period will fill up ...
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Mysterious write IO
I am just reviewing the disk IO of a XEN VM server. I stumbled across a DomU that has constant write traffic.
To narrow that traffic further down I logged in to the DomU (CentOS 5, 64 Bit) and ...
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Shrink a Linux guest .vdi in VirtualBox?
I've seen instructions for shrinking the .vdi image for a Windows guest machine in VirtualBox 4.1.8. However, it used a tool to write zeroes to free space in the .vdi (nullfile-1.02.exe) that is for ...
