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What's eating my drive space when normal files + hidden + system doesn't equal total drive space used
This is very strange. All directory sizes are normal, and all other folders are within 20GB of what they should be. The discrepancy is that I can’t locate the files that are consuming 150GB of ...
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Office Server Room With Bad HVAC Affecting Lungs [closed]
I work in a University office that is a small triangle in shape, about ten feet at the window and five feet at the door, with a length of about fifteen feet. The University has used this office to ...
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disk space keeps filling up on EC2 instance with no apperent files/directories
How come os shows 6.5G used but I see only 3.6G in files/directories?
Running as root on an Amazon Linux AMI (seems like Centos), lots of free memory available, no swapping going on, no apparent file ...
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Ubuntu webserver is out of space
Apparently, I was using xvda1 disk which is out of space.
How do I change the /etc/fstab so that I can make my xvda2 for top level, and xvda1 as additional resource?
It's an EC2 instance:
root@~# ...
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linux - disk space missing
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
rootfs 9.9G 7.2G 2.2G 77% /
# du -hx --max-depth=0 /
3.2G /
As you can see, df says 7.2GB is used, but du can ...
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AMI AWS No space left on device
I have a small AMI instance on AWS. The docs say that I should have 160G. I cannot download anything to the server as I get the following error:
write error: No space left on deviceMiB | 276 KiB/s
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Centos server migrate to larger disk
I have a centos server that runs a whm/cpanel with mysql, apache, bind and email daemons. The server now has 95% of the server disk full. It is a dell poweredge 1950 with 2 spaces for SAS disks. I ...
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grep and tabs: no match
#cat sample
1 -1 2
2 2 2
2 1-1 3
I need to get all the lines that contains negative value, that is 1st line only. Values are tab-separated.
First I tried
# grep "\-1" sample
1 -1 2
2 ...
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Native ZFS doesn't free up space when deleting files
I'm running native ZFS on Ubuntu 11.10 with 2x2 TB drives in a mirrored setup. The ZFS file system is mounted directly in Ubuntu and not through NFS or something like that, the permissions are set too ...
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CentOS Disks and Mounts
I have a web server and I'm confused about how the disk space has been allocated by the company I'm renting it, a dedicated one with a simple RAID mirror at 500Gb. Here is the output of df-h
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Blade server in a nutshell?
Can anyone give a real description of a blade server and what it's advantages are besides space? Are there any disadvantages? And also, do you think smaller companies (think around maybe 4-5 actual ...
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How to prevent GNU screen from expanding tabs into spaces?
Using a normal bash prompt echo -e 'hello\tworld' produces a real tab.
However the same command run within GNU screen puts spaces between the two words.
I have tested this on
Ubuntu 10.04 with Screen ...
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RedHat Linux LVM — determine free space
here's my brain teaser:
Got myself a server connected to a SAN. We would like to install Netbackup on it (to back up this and one other server).
I would like to create a new partition within an ...
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Mongodb grew to 850GB, disk has zero bytes left!! I rm 9GB file but still have 0 disk space! How can I reclaim the bytes? (urgent)
Woke up this morning to find out MongoDB grew to all available disk space for some reason. I cannot repair the db to compact it as i have no space left. I can't even start postgres to remove an old ...
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SQL Server 2005 TempDB Maintenace
I am working with a SQL Server 2005 database, which has the 8 files in 1 filegroup for the TempDB. The initial size of the 1st file is 8MB, and the other 7 are 2GB. This database is a reporting DB, ...
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disable .recycle feature for samba shares
I had a pretty big scare when my company file server filled up.
after tacking down the source I discovered that there is a .recycle folder that keeps ALL the files ever deleted (which is also ...
