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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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What stuff can be safely removed for disk space sake?
I am using Scientific Linux. So is there any stuff that can be safely removed from disk except /tmp?
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Disk space disappearing [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
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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“Split I/O”s on a Linux VM, disk alignment
I'm trying to figure out if there's some way I can tell if a system is being adversely affected by disk misalignment -- i.e. when I do a disk I/O operation, it actually needs to request extra blocks ...
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`du` get different results on different machines for the same folder
I have a folder(which contains a lot of sub-folders and files) on a machine,
I used
du -m
and it shows the disk usage of all sub-folders and files,
anyway, the overall disk usage is 78M
I ...
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In Centos, how to find free disk space?
in Centos and Ubuntu, how do i find out how much free disk space I have left and other disk stats like disk usage.
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What are /dev, /run and /run/shm and can I resize them?
So, I recently created a 15GB partition for Linux Mint 14. I've been working on it for a while, and I got a Low Disk Space notification. I ran df -h and this is what I'm getting:
Filesystem Size ...
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'df' command doesn't list /home directory
In the book I am reading, the output of df command is shown like this:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 15115452 5012392 9949716 34% /
/dev/sda5 59631908 ...
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Why do I get fsync() failed: Disk quota exceeded on my linux machine?
I get fsync() failed: Disk quota exceeded but when I use df -h and df -i there is enough space in all the folders.
What can I do?
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User mounted secondary drive as /var
I have a drive that someone else mounted using
mount /dev/sdc1 /var
At some point they complained that all the data was missing
Now:
mount /dev/sdc1 /media/testdrive
df -h shows 130GB used
du -h ...
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Linux tool to track directory space over time
Are there any common Linux tools that track disk space over time, not just a filesystem overall, but for example, so I could easily see which directory trees swelled up and shrunk historically? The ...
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Getting size with du of files only
How can I get the size of all files and all files in its subdirectories using the du command.
I am trying the following command to get the size of all files (and files in subdirectories)
find . ...
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How can I get a total for space used by a group of subdirectories
My file system is set up like:
/ftp/data/ProductGroup*/ProductType*/Year*/Day*/ActualProductFile*
("*"denotes directory names that change)
I'd like to find out how much space is being used for ...
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Centos freeing up disk space
I have a CentOS server running Plesk and it's run out of space on the plesk partition. I have narrowed down where a lot of the disk space is being used, but I'm not sure how to move forward. Can I ...
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decreasing “reserved block count” does not show up in df output
By default my ext3 file system had 122060 blocks(5%) reserved. I decreased this to 24412(1%), but there were no changes in df output:
root@t60:~# df -P
Filesystem 1024-blocks Used ...
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Find and remove large files that are open but have been deleted
How does one find large files that have been deleted but are still open in an application? How can one remove such a file, even though a process has it open?
The situation is that we are running a ...
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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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How to recursively find the amount stored in directory?
I know you are able to see the byte size of a file when you do a long listing with ll or ls -l. But I want to know how much storage is in a directory including the files within that directory and the ...
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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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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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du — ignore file not found errors
I'm trying to get the size of a folder an application is currently writing to. If I run the du command it sometimes fails with the error:
du: cannot access `/a/b/a.txt': No such file or directory
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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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Splitting large directory tree into specified-size chunks?
I have a directory tree that I would like to back up to optical disks. Unfortunately, it exceeds the size of any one disk (it's about 60GB). I am looking for a script that would split this tree into ...
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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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Why are text files 4kB?
For some reason, when I make a text file on OS X, it's always at least 4kB, unless it's blank. Why is this? Could there be 4,000 bytes of metadata about 1 byte of plain text?
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xfs disk usage is 15-30% bigger than the files
xfs seems to use 15-30% more disk space than the files require:
# du
0 .
# dd if=/dev/zero of=test bs=1M count=5k
5120+0 records in
5120+0 records out
5368709120 bytes (5,4 GB) copied, 10,527 ...
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How to remember the difference between du and df?
du and df do rather similar things, and so I always find myself typing the wrong one.
I think if I knew what "du" and "df" stands for it might make it easier to remember which to use.
What is a way ...
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What logs would be written if file system is full in UNIX?
I am working on a unix server and I guess during some time in past the file system had been full. However, I need some solid data to prove it. Will there be any OS logs or something of that sort to ...
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Filesystem monitoring
A script where we need to come up with a way for the disk space monitoring to be smarter. On smaller file systems, we still want to alert at 90% full, but on larger file sytems, we should only alert ...
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Removing disk quotas in Scientific Linux
Im doing some big data integrations in MongoDB at the moment.
MongoDB's files are stored at /data/db
Scientific Linux has automatically setup root to have a small amount of disk space and me, bob ...
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Find modifies the Access Time
I have to find those files which have been modified before one day. There are lots of files which are modified before one day. I am doing find ./ -type f -mtime -1. But, I observed that my disk util ...
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Using rsync to sync two directories on server and localhost, but size is different
I'm using rsync to sync a directory from server to localhost:
rsync -avz --delete ./Stuff user@host:/Stuff
This all works fine, but how come when I type 'du -s' in both the server and the localhost ...
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Any command to view the file system internal fragmentation size under a directory?
If the block size of a file system is 4KB, then for a 1KB file, 3KB space(which is internal fragmentation) is wasted. So, under a directory, is there any command to summarize how much disk space is ...
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Why is some filesystem space used even though the filesystem is empty? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
ext4: How to account for the filesystem space?
After googleing a little I find that ext4 reserve 5% for root: Reserved space for root on a filesystem - why?, ext2/3/4 ...
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Find largest files recursively
There seem to be a lot of entries about how to use du to recursively find the largest dir and files at the same time, but none on how to only recursively find the largest files in a set of ...
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Ghost directory in home directory
I am using following command to check the disk usage in my home direcory.
du -sk * | sort -n
I am getting the following output
273240 AQP
707720 oradiag
3176872 J2EEServer
23628720 var
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Why is my rootfs filling up so fast?
I'm trying out Linux by installing openSUSE 12.2 x64 on VirtualBox; the host is 64 bit Windows 7 Ultimate. I gave the install 16GB of storage - I will only be messing around with it - I thought this ...
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Disk size management
I am using Fedora 16. My /dev/sda2, mounted on / (root) with something like 50G got filled 100%:
[foampile@~ 13:13:39]> df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
rootfs ...
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How to `du` only the space used up by files that are not hardlinked elsewhere?
Using rsync --link-dest for space-saving snapshots, how can I figure out how much space I actually saved? Or more general:
How to figure out how much space a directory uses considering only files ...
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/ is out of blocks, can't find out why [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can I diagnose and repair missing drive space?
root@database:/# treesize -x 2>/dev/null
1.1 GB .
757.1 MB ./usr
232.0 MB ./lib
97.2 MB ./var
29.0 MB ./boot
6.3 MB ...
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Why do I get 3048 MB from a 64 MB flash memory?
I have a Linux based STB (set-top-box) and it features a 64 MB flash memory and 256 MB of RAM. I wanted to take a backup of some of my settings before I flash it with another image, but I wasn't sure ...
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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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remove unallocated space from a partition image
I have just created an image of an sd card using dd and the image is compressing down less than expected. I suspect this is because the card had not been zeroed out before I started to make the image. ...
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Expanding a partition in Ubuntu
This is what GParted displays about my partitions.
And this is the output from df:
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 61409452 4503052 53786836 8% /
udev ...
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Find biggest files or directories
Which command will print the sizes of all files and directories in the tmp directory (including hidden ones) and sort them by sizes from
largest to smallest in human readable format (e.g. 2 GB)?
The ...
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/var House Keeping
Does anyone have any general advice or links for doing some house keeping on the /var filesystem on Unix and Linux servers?
I have searched the issue quite a bit but can find no real concrete ...
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Print size of directory content with tree command in tree 1.5?
I like tree it's a nice way to display my files and the size of folders/directories. But the -h option only shows the size of the directory, not it's contents.
/media/
├── [ 16K] 64D9-E862
│ ├── ...
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df vs. du: why so much difference? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Why is there a discrepancy in disk usage reported by df and du?
df says 8.9G used by the partition mounted in /
:~$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted ...
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Is there a way to make apt report which packages in a dist-upgrade will use additional disk space?
I recently decided it was time to do the ol' dist-upgrade.
Since I don't upgrade often, I got this message:
deus@machina:~/$ sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reading package lists... Done
Building ...
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/dev/mapper and vicious IO widget
I have dio vicious widget for monitoring IO within an awesome widget. It is defined like so:
diowidget = widget({ type = "textbox" })
vicious.register(diowidget, vicious.widgets.dio, '<span ...
