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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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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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/usr partition filled up, need to make it larger or mount it somewhere else
I have 160 GBhdd. I have ubuntu on about 30GB and Rest is PC-BSD 9.0.
On PC-BSD, my /usr is about 11GB and that is all used up. I realize that when I try to install ubuntu inside VirtualBox. I need ...
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How to clean up my desktop?
Now, I see that my desktop running rhel 5.6 has run out of space. Now I need to clean it up. There must be some unintentional files adding up. What I would like to be able to do is list the files in ...
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GNU/Linux, IO performance problems
I have some problems with my system performance. As I was adviced here, I used sar:
$sar -u 5
and found out that the problems are caused by a low HDD performance, as I supposed (high %iowait).
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1answer
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Getting disk i/o statistics for single process in Linux
I need to monitor the I/O statistics of a process that writes to disk. The purpose is to avoid write rates too high for long periods.
I know there's iostat tool to accomplish this task on a ...
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1answer
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Managing disk space on servers
Are there any open source tools to view (and possibly restrict) disk usage per user? I need to track disk usage on a server by user.
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How can I fix linux disk without unmount it?
I had large file 200GB in my ext2 disk, then I deleted it(three are no files in Trash). And I haven't gained any free space. I don't want to use fsck as it requres me to unmount disk. I were windows ...
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Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
I have a Linux(CentOS) server, the OS+packages used around 5GB. Then, I transferred 97GB data from a Windows server to two folders on this Linux server, after calculated the disk usage, I see the ...
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How can I monitor disk I/O in a particular directory?
I've got a few processes with a known name that all write to files in a single directory. I'd like to log the number of disk block reads and writes over a period (not just file access) to test whether ...
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1answer
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Need help with re-partitioning
First of all: I'm just a beginning Linux-User ;-)
I've set up a server with OpenVZ support. I wrote a backup script that's dumping the vz containers from time to time. But some containers are not ...
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How to strip a Linux system?
I've been building a Linux distro, and I've stripped the binaries, etc. The system won't use GCC or development tools, as it will be a Chrome kiosk, so it would greatly help if I could strip down the ...
