Questions tagged [size]
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USB Gadget Size Limitation - Mass Storage Emulation
I'm facing a challenge with my Raspberry Pi 4 and software setup. The Pi connects to my server to download a weekly-updated database. The problem arises from the Mass Storage Gadget's CD emulator, ...
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dd not enough space
I have a drive that is about 1TB big. It is mostly free space. When you add up the size of all the partitions, it is less than 256GB.
I have another drive that is 256GB.
I would like to clone the data ...
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How to view a log file that's worth 10GB+?
The ways that I've thought of:
If you get to reproduce the scenario in real time. Use
tail -f application.log | tee /tmp/tailed_log
But it's not sure that we'll get to reproduce the scenario in real ...
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Sum of all file sizes in a folder down not adds up to what what ls or du show [duplicate]
I have downloaded couple of thousands file form a cloud. the download is done without any error. When I check the files occupied space in my hard drive is showing size, then what is shown on the cloud ...
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Linux Bash Shell Script - To Find Files with Zero Size and Delete
List of files are stored in a variable REMOVEFILES. Script need to verify the list of files one by one and if the file is ZERO in size, it should be deleted. Please help me fixing it.
#!/bin/bash
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find can not find size between A and B [duplicate]
problem description
I was using find(GNU version) to find files with size between 4G - 5G with below command
# find . -size +4G -size -5G -exec ls -1hSs {} +
But below can work
# find . -size +4G -...
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Make the smallest image of system [duplicate]
I would like the make an image of Linux system. I have a SD card 64GB, but the system takes only 11 GB. dd command, Win32DiskManager, ... all create a raw image of 64 GB, way bigger than the 11 GB.
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What's the POSIX-compliant way to get the size of a file or folder in bytes?
According to the Open Group specs, POSIX du doesn't have the -b option to display the size in bytes. So what is the POSIX-compliant way to get the size of a file or folder in bytes?
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ls -alh and du -sh shows difference in size.. why is that?
Why is this size difference ? Can someone explain ?
[root@~] ls -alh /vmfs/volumes/50a4a9e6-13184850/SYD0TXT01/vmware.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 2.1G Nov 25 00:48 /vmfs/volumes/50a4a9e6-...
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grep: What is the limit for a pattern file size
I am using grep with the -f option and I run into an issue when the pattern file given with -f is very long. The one that is failing for me has almost 300 thousand lines and 40 MBytes. grep does not ...
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How to "listen to" directory size changes?
I need to do some actions when a directory grows above a certain size limit.
Obviously, obtaining the size can be done with du, but a single run of du takes a long time in my case, loads the disk ...
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Debian - Create new partition with fdisk and set size ( Last sector )
please could someone help me with my problem of create new disk partition in Debian ?
I'am using Proxmox where I have created a few virtual machines.
On one of virtual machines where have installed ...
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Is it possible to increase the size of OpenBSD's bsd.rd without building it from source?
Having a bsd.rd extracted from an installation image and mounted as a vnode I can see there is 0.2MB free space available for additional files such as used during unattended installation.
I want to ...
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What's the upper-bound for an array index/subscript in GNU bc?
I've found that there is an upper-bound on your subscripts/indices in an array in GNU bc. Running interactively and asking to let arr[100000000]=42 returns an error:
Runtime error (func=(main), adr=...
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How to list files with only name and size
I would like to list the content of a directory, 1 line per entry, with only the files names and the files sizes.
ls -l shows too much information.
ls -1 -s doesn't show a file's size but its ...
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How to display the paths to all files that have a size greater than the specified limit
I need to output the paths to all files that have a size greater than the specified limit (declared as a variable).
I've done it using find script:
FILESIZE = "+10M";
find "$1" -...
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Change default browser screen font size
Running Fedora 34, Xfce desktop.
When I run Firefox, the screen is always too small and I find that I'm constantly hitting the Ctrl+ combination to set the screen size to 133% of the default so that I ...
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How can i make sure my volume is btrfs (or get it's type) and how can I know it's real size in my partition?
I have a volume which I believe to be btrfs, but the partition bearing it has an odd number of blocks and there is a little space left before the next partition.
I'd like to check it's type (btrfs ...
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Why /usr and /home size is very small even tough I gave /home and / (root) enaugh size?
My concern is about /usr and home size as you see.
Home:
Root:
My concern is about /usr and home size as you see.
It seems that they have really small space, but when I was installing ubuntu I gave ...
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Why am I getting HDD total space less than 931 GiB?
I've been trying for a few days already, but still cannot figure it out how to get the proper size of my HDD drive with a python script.
My HDD is 1Tb. As I know in Gb it is 1000Gb, and in GiB it is ...
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inode based file system, What is the maximum size of a file in the file system
could someone explain how to tackle this questions?
1. **What is the maximum size of a file that could be handled by single indirect and double indirect?**
Block size is 2K
Address size is 4 Bytes
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Count bytes of filename
How can I know how many bytes does it weight the name of a filename? Just the file, not the full path.
I've tried this:
echo 'filename.extension' | wc -c
is this right?
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How to calculate the size of data transferred between two machines in Ubuntu?
I have two computers.
The first one is as a workstation. It runs the deep learning code and connects an AP by a wired connection.
The second one is as a robot's computer. It sends the video and other ...
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OpenBSD core dump and /var size
I'm trying to figure out my partitioning
which leads to https://man.openbsd.org/disklabel#AUTOMATIC_DISK_ALLOCATION which says:
/var 13% of disk. 80M – 2x size of crash dump
But how do I ...
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How to list all files and get the total size of all files in an sftp server?
I am connected to an sftp server using
sftp -i key.pem user@server
The server contains logs and I can list logs up to 4 days old using ls. The problem is that ls does not seem to be able to fetch ...
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Does Linux update the size of a block device?
In the light of emmc wearout monitoring I'm wondering about the size as displayed inside a running Linux OS. An emmc chip has an internal manager which keeps track of the usage intensity of all the ...
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I don't understand how "ls" command works [duplicate]
I wanted to check what is the size of pg_backup folder, so I used this command:
[postgres@server02 ~]$ pwd
/var/lib/pgsql
[postgres@server02 ~]$ ls -lh
total 4.0K
drwxr-x---. 7 postgres postgres 86 ...
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Samba share on rpi/Linux is reporting SD card space rather than HDD space in Windows
The samba config should be pointing directly to the mount point I have created for the two external HDDs, yet it still reports in Windows as 116GB (my OS SD card size on the Pi).
/etc/fstab (...
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1TB drive compressed shows only 3.8GB, what did I do wrong?
On Linux Mint 20.2 Cinnamon I would like to create a disk image of my secondary disk drive (SATA) containing Windows 10, not that it matters now, directly gzip'ed using the Parallel gzip = pigz onto ...
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Delete files in a directory only when cumulative sum of files size exceeds xGB
I have a directory, with thousands of files.
I need to sort the files in descending order of creation date (to make sure that the newest files wont be deleted), and start summing the size of these ...
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Graphical disk space manager for linux terminal
I want to export the results of a recursive ls command.
Then open it in a disk space manager software like Treesize.
Do you know of a program that is able to to that?
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How to open and read a character device as binary file?
I'm working with USB and I want to read the content of usb device descriptor in /dev/bus/usb/00x/00y - it is a character device.
I used fopen to open it as a binary file with "rb" parameter. ...
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How is the theoretical maximum file size on filesystems like XFS calculcated?
Documentation for XFS claims its current theoretical maximum file size is 8 exbibytes - 1 byte. However, I am wondering how this calculation was computed? I cannot seem to find discussion of this ...
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Why do snapshots consume much less space than the data which is changed after they have been taken?
Although I am using ZFS since quite a while, I am still failing to understand some aspects of it from time to time. Currently I am trying to understand how ZFS snapshots take up space on the disk and ...
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ls -s vs -l file size difference and significance [duplicate]
As a very basic linux user, I've always considered the file size as shown in ls -lh to be the one and only file size on disk.
For example here, file.xlsx is 11kb
-rw-r--r--@ 1 michael staff 11K ...
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Why is the EXT3 FS size much smaller vs. partition size?
We have a partition, which is exactly 50 GByte sized:
# fdisk -l /dev/sdb
Disk /dev/sdb: 50 GiB, 53687091200 bytes, 104857600 sectors
Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
Sector size (logical/...
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Where is the KEYDEF in sort command?
I need to sort the results of 'du' command by file or folder name, file size, or last modified time in various situations, and appending ' | sort -k 2' command after 'du' command sorts the results by ...
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find command: -size behavior
I have a question concerning the find command in Linux.
In all the articles I've found online it says that attribute -size -10M, for example, returns files that are less than 10 MB in size. But when I ...
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Size of directory with millions of sub directories without `du'
I have a folder with millions of sub directories and in each sub directory a file.
I need to get the size of the complete directory size. I've used du but it took 17 hours (on a M.2 SSD) to complete ...
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How to recursively list subdirectories and their sizes?
I have a directory with many subdirs and many files inside those. All I need is to figure out how much space each subdir takes. So I need something like ls -lR in that I want to see the entire ...
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Deleting files by checking file size in bash
I have two directories with files, one is the "source", the other
"destination". I would like to have a script that checks file
in "source". If file name and size matches ...
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Volume show different sizes in CentOS 7
I hope you and your dears are very well.
I'm facing a issue which I cannot understand the root cause.
I have a VM with CentOS 7 64 bits. This VM has the following partitions:
Filesystem Size ...
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Why used space on new root partition is so big (almost 8GB) (MX Linux 19.2 KDE)?
After installation of MX Linux 19.2 KDE occupied space on root partition was 7.8GB. It is totally incoherent with user manual suggesting to leave at least 5GB for root partition (but if you plan to ...
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Get total size of file in current directory (not include size of subdirectory)
I'm a newbie in Linux and English is not my primary language.
I have folder structure (example):
/folder1/file1.zip (1GB)
/folder1/file2.zip (1GB)
/folder1/subfolder/file3.zip (1GB)
/folder1/...
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Linux Directory Size Limiting
I have a FTP server with anonymous access for my local network. Here I have directories named with department names. I want to limit the directory sizes in respect to departments.
/var/ftp/pub/
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Virtual Machine can't extend /dev/mapper/vg0-rootvol
I have a virtual machine that I'm trying to extend from 150GB to 500GB.
$ sudo cfdisk /dev/sda
cfdisk (util-linux 2.23.2)
Disk Drive: /dev/sda
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Is a text file bigger on Windows than on Linux because of carriage return?
Let's say I have the same ASCII text file on Linux and Windows:
one
two
three
The two files will have \n and \r\n respectively as EOL character on the two OSes.
Does this mean that the file on Linux ...
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Raid5 mdadm array change size
I have created a raid5 array with 4 disks. Initially i had 3x 3tb and 1x 4tb (because 3tb was unavailable at the time). After some years i have replaced most of these disks and have come to the point ...
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HDD size from df or lsblk?
I've been said to write a program in c++ to get every hdd and partition's total, free and used size. I can use commands to do this. I searched and I understood that there are two ways of getting size,...
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Debian Extending Primary (root) partition without data loss [closed]
I have a VM with Debian installed on it. I want to extend the primary partition without losing data.
Here is output of sudo fdisk -l:
Disk /dev/sda: 34.2 GiB, 36700160000 bytes, 71680000 sectors
Disk ...
