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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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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 ...
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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 can I diagnose and repair missing drive space?
I have a small ext3 / partition on a 2T drive which appears to have a discrepancy in its free space. How can I determine what is causing it and how it can be fixed.
After trying everything I could ...
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Why are partion size and df output different?
I have a partition /dev/sda1.
Disk utility shows, it has capacity of 154 GB.
df -h shows
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 123G 104G 14G 89% /
devtmpfs ...
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How to check accurately the remaining disk space on a partition?
I have my /home partition formatted as ext3. Occassionally, some program that is part of GNOME is giving notifications about there only being 700mb of space left. Nautilius tells me I have 5.6GB. Disk ...
