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detecting increased partition in vmware without restarting guest OS
we're running a non-critical production ubuntu server, and i need to increase the partition size from 17GB to 30GB without restarting the guest OS.
On my VSPHERE, i increased the storage size on my ...
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space needed to index databases
We have a DAG that is spread across 6 mailbox servers (3 primary, 3 secondary) with volumes of space carved out from our NAS connected via iSCSI. The databases are shared between them for failover and ...
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How to limit the amount each user can use on a CentOS VPS? [duplicate]
I use CentOS 6.4 on VPS. I want to limit the amount which each user can use.
/home directory is a part of the main partition which mounted on root directory (/), so I cannot use quota on /home ...
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How to recover free space on deleted files without restarting the referencing processes?
When big files are deleted on a server, the files might still be referenced by processes, so the file system doesn't have more free space.
I tried to use lsof, but it seems it didn't list the deleted ...
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Ubuntu Server - Disk Space is full! Urgent help please [duplicate]
I see that my website is down due to full diskspace. I don't really use much diskspace, lets say maximum 50gb. My server has 1.4tb diskspace, how how did it became full?
I really need help, thank you ...
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size of the disk is more than the size of the files on the disk [migrated]
I am using windows 7. my c: drive capacity is 75 gb. where the Os is located. The size of the files on the disk is only 50 gb including hidden files. But used space of c drive shows 60Gb. Where the ...
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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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PostgreSQL 8.1 out of space and stopped, data directory is empty
I used PostgreSQL 8.1 on Gentoo/Linux 2.6.14r5. My db server's disk space looks like below:
db postgresql # df -l
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 ...
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Redistributing disk space on a linux distro
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda6 4.6G 4.6G 0 100% /
tmpfs 464M 0 464M 0% /lib/init/rw
varrun 464M 96K ...
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Best practice disk usage for SQL Server
I've been reading that it is best practice to place the following on separate disks for performance and safety:
tempdb
database file
log file
backup files
When you consider RAID using multiple ...
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Monitoring software for diskspace on windows servers
I'm looking for a lightweight solution to monitor diskspace on windows servers and sent the report to a monitor server that presents the data in a nice gui. The server software can be linux or ...
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df vs du. Is my disk really full?
Strange problem...
Why i have full / partition used, but it's not really used?
Fast info:
xwing ~ # df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 16G 15G 75M 100% /
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How can I audit remote drives for stray VSS snaps?
I discovered stray snapshots on my drives with the command
DISKSHADOW> list shadows all
I want to create & run a script that will audit this on every host in the network.
How can I use ...
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can I delete the files in the proc folder without consequence?
I see my proc folder getting bigger and bigger and I have limitation in terms of number of files.
Can I delete those files or will it have consequences?
thanks
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No more diskspace on server [duplicate]
after some wrong php code was exceuted on one of our servers, which tried to open up a file which didn't exist, we ended up with huge apache log files which weren't configured yet to rotate. We just ...
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Maximum Disk Space Dell PowerEdge 2900 [closed]
What is the maximum disk space I can have for my Dell PowerEdge 2900. I know that the max for the OS partition is 2TB unless you do some special setup but for other volumes what is the max that I can ...
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What is using up file space in Redhat? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
du vs. df difference
We are running a server with Redhat 5 that shows 46GB used with "du" and 101GB used with "df". I have been unable to find the other 50GB. I have ...
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pwrite: No space left on device. df -i, df -h okay
On a Rackspace cloud server I see:
admin@foo:/etc/nginx$ sudo /etc/init.d/nginx start
Starting nginx: nginx: [crit] pwrite() "/var/run/nginx.pid" failed (28: No space left on device)
nginx.
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OpenBSD - Image on a new, bigger disk - how to use the extra space
Our present OpenBSD server needed more disk space, so we replaced the 13 GB disk (it's pretty old too) with 150GB. An image was made and then restored on the new disk. So far, so good.
The new disk ...
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100% - /tmp help needed
few hours back i receievd message from directadmin
Warning: The disk usage for one or more of your partitions is running low
so i checked in directadmin and noticed this message
Subject: Warning: ...
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Is is possible to span “infinitely” across multiple Dell Equalogic devices?
I was looking at Dell Equalogic devices, the PS4100E. It says you can have two PS4100 boxes for 36TB each. Am I reading that right? What if I want to have more space? Can I span to more 4100E ...
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Map linux folders by size
I have AWS linux instance, Currently there are many folders in the instance.
I would like to map all the folders and their size, so i could come back in 1 month and check which folder occupy high ...
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Ran out of disk space, how to tar without creating copy
I am at 98% of an 8GB SSD, and I have a 3 GB mysql data that I need to gzip and or tar and then download it, so then I can delete it.
How can I tar or gzip the sql (or the mysql tables) so that that ...
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Alfresco couldn't start. Why?
I have alfresco on my VM. When I try to start alfresco I got an error "postgresql could not be started" such as following :
/opt/alfresco/postgresql/scripts/ctl.sh : postgresql could not be started
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No space left on device prevents login
It seems that when you run out of disk space all remote logins are prevented [I'm using Red Hat 4.4]. Apparently this is because all non-superuser logins have to write to /var/log/auth.log
This is a ...
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Filessystem sizing issues on root
I recently installed a VM version of Oracle Linux 6.3 and began installing applications for testing. I realized that the "/" mount is small and the "/home" mount is way oversized, See output below.
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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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Allocating Disk Space in a Linux VM
So, currently on a server I have a Fedora VM for an end user who remotes in. Unannounced to me, it was overfilled with data, and now has no more disk space. At this point, it crashed about a minute ...
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Ubuntu mysql error: Disk is full writing
I had some mysql problems yesterday. I got "Too many connections" error on my sites because one of my script went a little bit crazy. After I fixed the connection problems I still got an error in ...
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Can't find disk usage in one directory
Similar questions are asked frequently but no suggested answers solved my issue. I have some disk space usage that I can't find as well.
In df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% ...
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SSD suddenly full
Today the hard drive of our server was suddenly full. The disk usage always stayed around 50 % in the weeks and months before (old data is regularly expunged from the server).
I deleted 10 GB of ...
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MySQL partition “full”? [closed]
I have a server that runs Debian 6.2, with Apache, PHP5, and MySQL.
Well, I hadn't done anything with MySQL at all so far, just Apache and PHP; I must have installed it (mysql-server) at some point ...
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How to have 20-30TB space with many 2TB HDDs? [closed]
I want to build a server with a minimum of 20TB - 30TB space. I want to make a single server with many 2TB HDDs. How is it possible to have 20TB-30TB for a single folder ie. /var/www which will ...
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How to add a disk space monitor for a single disk to Microsoft SCE (System Center Essentials)
One of the disks for one of my servers is not listed in Monitoring->Microsoft Windows Server->Health Monitoring->Disk Health. It recently ran low on space without me being alerted by SCE so I would ...
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Disk size and space detection
i'm running a server with debian stable :
Linux myhostname 2.6.32-5-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 00:01:30 UTC 2011 x86_64 GNU/Linux
It is running a nginx, mail server,ftp server and a mysql database.
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Out of Disk Space, /mnt/hgfs to blame?
I'm running a Centos VM in VMWare Fusion 5.x. The VM is running a file transfer server and the files being sent are stored on a disk shared from the host, /mnt/hgfs/Aspera. It looks like the file ...
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Web-based disk space visualizer
I have a number of Linux webservers for which I'd like to track where disk space is going and keep disk space to a minimum.
Typically I login on SSH and use du to find out where disk space is wasted ...
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Linux missing disk space
I have KVM vps with strange disk usage:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sdb 493G 1.2G 466G 1% /
tmpfs 4.0G 0 4.0G 0% ...
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/dev/mapper/VolGroup-lv_root has no more space left?
We have a centos machine and the mysql is not starting and is due to space if full. Below is the df-h results. What best can be done in this situation? Add more hard disk ?
Filesystem Size ...
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df -h overreports disk space on VPS
When I run the command df -h on my new Ubuntu linux vServer I get the following:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdv1 466G 33G 434G 7% /
none ...
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Ubuntu “No space left on device” for /home, df shows 100% full, ds shows much, much less [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Linux different size for df and du for root partition
On an Ubuntu 12.04 server, normal users can no longer create or add to files in /home, encountering a "No space ...
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No space left on device — but there is space
I'm running an Ubuntu 12.04.1 server in a VMware virtualized environment that has a strange issue. Twice now, at seemingly random times, the machine has suddenly been unable to write to the root ...
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Linux data storage and partitioning
In the following output of df -h you can see that i have added a new hard drive(/dev/hdd1) and have mounted as /hdd1.
My question is if I start dumping data to /opt will that data be mounted in /hdd1 ...
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Cross-platform, human-readable, du on root partition that truly ignores other filesystems
Edit 09/20/2012
I made this way too complicated before. I believe that these commands are actually the simpler way, while still formatting everything nicely.
RHEL 5
du -x / | sort -n |cut ...
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Determining disk space usage & file counts for extremely large data sets (any tricks?)
Long time reader, first time asker:
I'm a junior-level Linux admin who's increasingly supporting very large data sets/stores on local & NFS storage. The data is generally in the form of massive ...
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Linux disk usage analyser that acts like symlinks are real files
I am using git-annex, an extension to the DVCS git, which is designed for handling large files. It makes heavy use of symlinks. The actual large files are moved to the .git/annex directory and the ...
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Disabling email capabilities on dedicated server
I have a dedicated server that doesn't need to use email on any account, and I found that the disk is getting full often. I use to fix it removing domlogs and some apache logs but now that didn't ...
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Calculate disk space occupied by many .png files
I have 357 .png files located in different sub dirs of the current dir:
settings# find . -name \*.png |wc -l
357
settings# find . -name \*.png | head
./assets/authenticationIcons/audio.png
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Home directory filling up on ubuntu
I have a dedicated ubuntu server that hosts a rails web app. It has 2.9TB free in the home directory, which is where I host the app (for convenience sake). We host video so the home directory was ...
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Got error 28 from storage engine (disk full) but my disk are not full
Basically MySQL is giving me many errors of "Got error 28 from storage engine" that means no more disk space is available.
The output of df -h is:
File system Dim. Usati Disp. Uso% ...
