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Disk space disappearing [duplicate]
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How to understand what's taking up space?
Hi, I am using Ubuntu 10.10.
I have 40G of disk space in my partition /home
and have used up 10 G of it, so I should have ...
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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 ...
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how do you sort du output by size?
How do you sort du -sh /dir/* by size? I read one site that said use | sort -n but that's obviously not right. Here's an example that is wrong.
[~]# du -sh /var/* | sort -n
0 /var/mail
1.2M ...
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How do I count all the files recursively through directories
I want to see how many files are in subdirectories in there subdirectories to find out where all the inode usage is on the system. Kind of like I would do this for space usage
du -sh /*
which will ...
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Disk space on Fedora 12
I'm using Fedora 12 on my laptop. I have 10GB disk space and 2GB of them are free. After 2-3 days uptime the space ends and I must reboot. After rebooting I get 2GB free space back. How can I prevent ...
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How to understand what's taking up space?
I'm looking for a linux alternative to WinDirStat. I would like to know what is taking up space on my hard drives.
A program that works on console and doesn't require a UI is preferred .
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Disk quota exceeded; truncate not bringing quota back down
Resolved: See "However" at the end of the question for details.
I've managed to hose my login to a Unix box. I don't have an easy way of contacting the administrator, so I'd like to resolve it myself ...
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error using “du” command
I am on the university machine trying to estimate the disk usage I have on my space I do
du -csh ./
from the begining of my account, but an error is given that ./Yesterday/Yesterday is not a ...
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Do symbolic links actually make a difference in disk usage?
I've read in so many websites that, in Linux, symbolic links (soft links, symlinks) are just like pointers that reference another file, which may be located anywhere (like Windows shortcuts). However, ...
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What happened to my free space
On my Amazing 2GB EeePC Surf, I have no more space left!
This is quite normal, and it happens every now and then. Just delete a few large, unneeded files and everything should be good, right?
So I ...
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Why is there a mismatch between size reported by LVM and the size reported by df -h?
I'm new to LVM and have been very confused by this:
I am transfering a large file to a partition that I thought had about 1.5 terabytes of space on it. Near the end of the transfer, rsync exits with ...
