Questions tagged [disk-space-utilization]
For questions related to disk space utilisation.
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How to enable space reclamation from KVM guest to ZFS zvol iSCSI target?
I have a ZFS volume "tank/kvm/webhosting", exposed through iSCSI (using tgt) to KVM guest.
<disk type='block' device='disk'>
<driver name='qemu' type='raw' cache='none' io='native' ...
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ASP.NET Temporary files taking up too much space
I have approximately 900 applications running on the server where each one points to a folder that contains content that is about 215MB in size.
When I noticed that my server's hard drive was almost ...
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How to get Dovecot quota status to message correctly?
I have a testing VM running Ubuntu with postfix, dovecot and a couple of users set up using Roundcube to send mail locally via SMTP.
If I set the Dovecot quota of User A to 20K and then send about 18K ...
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Check XFS project quota on NFS client
I am implementing project quotas on a file server (Centos 7.8.2003) that has data volumne formatted using XFS. File access to this server will occur using NFS. I know how to check user quotas on the ...
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Unexplained massive rmagick temporarily file
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We recently ran into a situation whereby some of our server instances were suddenly running out of disc space, evidenced by below graph:
The reason for running out of disc space is a single /...
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Any suggestions on recovering from a 100% utilized vSAN?
I am seeking suggestions and comments on how to recover from a 100% full vSAN (without the obvious, reset to factory option). I have an 8 node ESXi cluster which runs entirely on a vSAN backing. Due ...
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Is there a standard tool to trim cache directories?
I want to run a cron job that removes old entries in a cache directory, so that its total size is reduced to a certain amount of bytes. I've concocted this one line shell command, but I was wondering: ...
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unable to ssh to Azure virtual machine
Brief explanation about the issue-
I am experiencing VM restart every now and then. So whatever disk we attached get automatically unmounted. So as per the recommendations what we did is added ...
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EC2 Disk space not utilized fully
I have an EC2 instance. While launching i tried with disk storage space, like 16 GB.
In AWS console i see a new EBS volume been created of 16 GB and gets attached.
When i log into machine i can see ...
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Centos 7, root is almost full, already try du -shx and lsof | grep deleted but still can't find the culprits
We are using centos 7 and have 50G allocated for root. We are running out of spaces as df reported that 45G (90%) is used. But when I try to find what's been eating the space, du only shows less than ...
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proxmox image import creates an 50GB disk regardless of image size
If I import a disk image for vm 101 from a raw image, it will create an 50GB disk image:
# qm importdisk 101 disk.img local-zfs
importing disk '446-jenkinsmite.img' to VM 101 ...
transferred 0.0 B of ...
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Windows Server 2016: Users dir taking over C: drive due to high load. Can I set a default location for new and current user AppData on another drive?
I'm working with a virtual Windows Server 2016 that's C: drive is filling up due to a high number of Users (over 2,000). The server acts as a Citrix host, which is leading to AppData dirs averaging ...
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How do I extend the space of /dev/sda3 on Oracle Linux Server 7.9
Disk capacity is at 105GB, but the root directory (/dev/sda3) capacity is only 39GB, I want to increase the capacity. How can we do this? By the way, the OS is Oracle Linux Server 7.9.
$ df -h
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What accounts for mystery hard drive space gone missing? (Difference between df and du)
To preface: there are lots of other useful questions (e.g. this and this) on possible causes for different sizes reported by df and du. None of the explanations apply to my exceedingly simple case, ...
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Resizing VM's size having only boot partition
I've to increase my KVM guest's partition, I followed steps as explained in the accepted answer here. For step 3, there's a link mentioned in the accepted answer comment section (tried to paste it ...
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MySQL Ubuntu doesn't start anymore after disk storage was full
MySQL Version: Ver 8.0.22-0ubuntu0.20.04.2 for Linux on x86_64 ((Ubuntu))
Today I encountered that my MySQL stopped running, all my websites are offline.
When I try to run manually I get the following ...
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Reclaim free space after deleting NFS file
I deleted a 137G file in a NFS mount (from a Linux host), and it dissapeared from the directory but the free space reported by df is still the same
the NFS server is a NAS device with almost no ...
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Resize CentOs partition from another partition that already exist
I have a server CentOs, I'm new to server's world, so I have one /dev/sda3 partition almost full of files, and another one /dev/sda5 bigger and empty, how can I resize the bigger empty one partition ...
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Deduplication Savings differs a lot between same two volumes
I run this robocopy command to copy all data from the existing volume to my new volume which will replace the old one in the near future:
robocopy I:\ E:\ /E /COPYALL /PURGE /MIR /B /R:1 /W:1 /XD "...
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ideas needed - cut the smb connection when disk full
Hello sometimes we are having issues like when some misbehaving user copies files to a server via admin share or other share and he causes disk drive to fill and a p1 ticket be created by monitoring. ...
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Zabbix graph not showing disk usage
So, I am using Zabbix to monitor my server.
At / file system I have 63 GB free. So I wanted to fake a huge file on that directory to see if the Zabbix graphs would correctly show that the used space ...
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Ceph is full but disk is almost empty
I have a ceph cluster with 2 nodes and 3 osd's each. Each osd is on one partion on a 8TB disk. The server is limited in amount of disk so I even have system on the same disks.
On install I used ...
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mdadm/ext4 chunk size on raid 1
Sorry for my noob question.
I have a raid 1 system on mdadm in Debian, with the resulting partition formatted as ext4. Looking at the resulting share in Windows, it reports:
Size: 618GB
Size on disk:...
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SQL Server backup overwrite increases in size
I have a small database, that backs up to around 3.5mb.
If I overwrite the backup Tasks -> Backup -> Type: Full -> Backup to disk it increases in size each time around 3.5mb.
If I delete ...
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Disable nginx fastcgi_cache when disk is full
When there is no disk space, nginx is still able to work correctly.
It can serve static files, and it can pass the request to a fastcgi server (such as PHP), and it can serve the dynamic response to ...
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Monitor disk occupancy
The problem should be simple, but not so obvious to me.
I have a process that creates temporaries in a specified directory, under MacOS X. I need to find the disk occupancy of the process, if ...
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Set up diskspace quotas according to a dynamic backend on Linux
I am currently setting up a machine which involves a lot of user accounts coming from a dynamic backend (MySQL database). I have successfully setup the system so that it uses that backend for all ...
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installing CoreOS using usb device and CoreOS ISO
I have some doubts about installing CoreOS using the image ISO.
I follow the steps in CoreOS docs, in the Install section:
cfdisk -z /dev/sda
touch "/usr.squashfs (deleted)" # work around a bug ...
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Mapped drive error message - mapped drive is full
I have a Windows 2003 domain, and one of my clients gets a mapped drive Z: is full message when mapping a drive on the server. The drive on the server is not full.
My understanding is that the issue ...
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deleting files only frees space partially (ext3 / ext4)
I just did something similar to this:
$ du -sh /bigdata/stuff
1022G /bigdata/stuff
$ df -h /bigdata
Fileystem Size Used Avail Used% mounted on
/dev/sda5 1,8T 1,7T 140G 93% /bigdata
$ rm -...
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Openstack-Swift Disk usage for Containers
Currently i am testing a openstack-swift cluster made of 1 proxy node and 6 storage nodes. Each host has ubuntu 12.04. I put 5000 containers each having a text 4.6 KB. Each storage node has a 100 GB ...
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Suppress "running out of disk space" Message (per drive) on Windows Server 2003
We have a database server with separate drives for OS, various data files and the transaction log. Our transaction log spills over onto other volumes as well- this is expected behavior.
The problem ...
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Display FSRM storage quota details on ASP.NET site
I am running FSRM on SBS 2008 to apply storage quotas to user folders. Is it then possible to display these user specific quotas and usage when the user logs onto an intranet website that is using ASP....
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Podman using all disk space
I am running AlmaLinux 9 (RHEL 9 clone), and am new to podman. I have been running my first and only container for a month, and today my disk is full:
df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% ...
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Why are "wmic diskdrive get size" and "(Get-Disk).Size" returning slightly different values?
As you can see, the following commands provide slightly different output. Why? I was expecting them to be the same. There is a 2.66MB difference between the two.
How can I get the values from "...
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Is that possible to monitor mysql in cloudwatch?
I have some server in EC2, In that i have configured memory/disk usage metric in cloudwatch it is showing overall usage but i want to check memory of particular path How to check that? Is that ...
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MSA volume is more used than the StoreEasy disk
I meet a problem on connection between MSA - Proliant servers.
The volume has been created on MSA in raid 6: https://i.stack.imgur.com/6lUIY.png
https://i.stack.imgur.com/u1LP7.png
https://i.stack....
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deleted files doesn't free up space on nfs volume
I would like to hear your suggestion on why space is not released after files deletion.
Jira application uses nfs volume as shared jira home. 12 gb indexes snapshot is created per hour (oldest one is ...
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What's the Difference between xvda15 and root on AWS ubuntu?
So I ran df -hT on my AWS EC2 Ubuntu instance to check the disk storage. I get the following response:
Filesystem Type Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/root ext4 7.6G 7.0G 671M 92%...
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How to diagnose out of space errors?
Twice I've noticed out of space errors in my php app and both times I've received the error "No space left on device while writing config" when attempting to login via ssh to troubleshoot ...
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Ubuntu server: after upgrading to 22.04 LTS my disk space decreased from 54% to 30%. How can I free up some space?
I recently upgraded an old VM from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 and 22.04.
Before the update, I had ~50GB of free space, now I have 24GB.
I already run apt autoremove, I purged unused kernel files and ...
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Issue adding space from /home to /var with ext4 fs debian 11
My /var is full on 9.1GB and I need to increase space to 100GB from /home that has 1.4TB. When I run fdisk it keeps giving me the same default amount of space (9.1GB). Is the another way of adding ...
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VirtualBox wont allow choose "dynamically allocated" hard disk file on creation dialog
I need to create a "dynamically allocated" hard disk file on virtual box but on creation dialog there is no option to it, there is only "Pre-allocated Full size" and "Split ...
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How to resize kvm vm host
KVM Host Environment:-
# cat /etc/issue
Welcome to openSUSE 13.2 "Harlequin" - Kernel \r (\l).
# /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64 --version
QEMU emulator version 2.1.3
With the below commands i ...
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Is Cloud Best Practice To Still Have Multiple Disks (Volumes) For a Server?
In the old days of physical servers, it was considered good practice (at least at the places I have worked at) for a server to always have at least two disks (volumes) no matter how simple an ...
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Disk Partitioning errors after Disk resize in Compute Engine
Currently stuck trying to partition disk.
Getting some errors I don't understand. Might be in over my head. My question is at bottom.
The disk has been resized using GCP/Compute Engine Disk manager. ...
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Process unable to write file - disk space ran out what happened?
I had a situation with a server misconfig. Nginx was unable to write its logs due to invalid file permissions and checking with free the buffers/caches were at about 3.2GB (out of 4GB Memory).
Nginx ...
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Sudo Error When Resizing Azure VS Disk
I upgraded my disk size from 30G to 2048G. Now I need to resize it from OS and am following this article. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/virtual-machines/linux/expand-disks
The problem is ...
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Why did I suddenly gain 300GB on my server
I've been working on my server all day, doing various things. I know, unquestioningly (found the evidence by scrolling up in one of my terminal sessions) that I had about 900GB of space 4 hours ago. ...
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where is my hdd space
I am new to linux and installed Centos with default configuration without applying any custom settings, while I have 512 GB SSD drive but on gnome it shows only 75 gb, when I tried to run fdisk ...
