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df in linux not showing correct free space after file removal
I have file servers which are used to store files. Files might reside there for a week, or for a year. Unfortunately, when I remove files from the server, df command doesn't reflect the freed up space....
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MariaDB Docker lagre db/binlog.* files. Overflows the disk to the point of failure
How to Fix?
ls -lh /root/docker/yml/nextcloud/db/binlog.*
-rw-rw---- 1 999 999 960M Aug 25 22:55 /root/docker/yml/nextcloud/db/binlog.000043
-rw-rw---- 1 999 999 5.5M Aug 25 23:52 /root/docker/yml/...
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df output does not change after deletion of a 41G file
Maybe my understanding of what df does is incorrect?
I am wondering what is the problem here
1. checking usage
$ sudo df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 443G ...
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Linux 'df' command not showing root filesystem?
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 at Rackspace. What could cause the root fs to not appear here?
# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
none 4 0 4 0% /sys/...
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df reports zero used space
On a VM in azure we mount some blob storage via NFS, which generally works good. I now found though, that df reports wrong values for usage of the NFS storage:
root@myVM:~# df -h /mnt/blob/
Filesystem ...
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Centos 7.4, dev/vda1 is 100% [duplicate]
My VPS on DO now has an issue of dev/vda1 is 100% since around 3 months ago, at that time, I did poweroff & reboot then disk spaced freed.
But the thing rans into some bigger issue since 1 week ...
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How to hide tempfs from the df output on CentOS 7 in ssh?
I know this can be done because I've done it before on previous servers but I forgot how and web searches did not come up with the result.
I know what tmpfs is and that you should not remove it. What ...
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Difference between Volume Disk Space and Disk usage returned by ncdu [duplicate]
My server has a 130 GB Volume attached.
To check the free disk psace, I run df -h -x tmpfs -x squashfs | grep -v /run/shared and I get :
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev ...
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df -h shows / is 100% but du -sh * is not showing where the utulization is [duplicate]
OS: Oracle Linux 7.5
df -h keeps showing that / is 100% full but searching on / with du -sh * is not showing where that utilization could possibly be, any help and suggestions will be appreciated. I ...
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Find what is using disk space in CentOS 7 (du vs df vs lsof)
I have a server, CentOS 7, that show disk usage on DF way higher than you can see on DU and I trying to understand why
DF shows 38GB used
DU shows 14GB
There is no mount point on any folder
Checking ...
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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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why iostat not showing one of my disk?
Please check the picture below. The df shows /dev/xsda mounted
But iostat not showing the device. Why?
[admin] /dev]$df -h | grep '/dev'
tmpfs 64M 0 64M 0% /dev
/dev/nvme1n1 7.0T ...
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How to view if partitions primary or secondary in Linux
How do I view my partitions if they are primary or secondary in Linux CentOS? I tried df -T but it does not show if partitions are primary or secondary.
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Can't get disk space back after running out of space (and removing some files) in Ubuntu 18.04
This is driving me crazy! My server run out of space. I cleaned up some files by removing the folders. The amount of free space didn't go up (% wise). This is what I now see:
As you can see, it shows ...
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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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df shows negative bytes used.... only during dd
I have begun a dd to copy a partition on one usb drive, to a 2nd usb drive. While I have freshly reformatted the destination partition (/dev/sdc1), and it checks out with fsck normally and shows it is ...
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Clarification on understanding Linux disk usage with df and how tmpfs should be assessed
I have searched serverfault, SO and other sites but could not find a clear answer. I have done some reading on the basics of Linux storage and filesystems, but I'm still unclear about how to solve my ...
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Sort df Output by Mount Point
I need to get the output of df -h sorted alphabetically by its mount point in the Mounted on column.
However, df -h currently outputs similar to this:
$ df -h
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Weird discrepancy in size between fdisk and df
fdisk reports the following info about a partition
Device: /dev/sda1
Boot: *
Start: 2048
End: 209715166
Sectors: 209713119
Cylinders: 443369
Size: 100G
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gzip "No space left on device"
Using gzip 1.3.12 / ubuntu 64bit I am getting "No space left on device" yet there appears to be plenty of disk space remaining.
gunzip 03-05-2012--22-52-01.tar.gz
gzip: 03-05-2012--22-52-01.tar: No ...
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Filesystem full with 'df' but seems actually not
On my AIX 6.1 server, i have a problem on a VIO LPAR.
A filesystem seams to be full with the 'df' command, but not with 'du' or 'ls' for example.
I searched but I don't understand where the problem ...
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Why does df say my EFS disk has a capacity of 8 Exabytes?
This is a screenshot from my AWS EC2 instance, which the EFS disk is mounted on:
How can this be?
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raidz1 6x4TB = 16.9t?
I an running Ubuntu server with the latest version of zfs-utils. I installed 6x4TB disks (lsblk -b shows all disks partition 1 size=4000787030016) and created a raidz1 configuration with all 6 disks. ...
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df shows low disk space. It includes a directory which uses mount --bind for chroot sftp
I've setup a chroot environment for sftp access (sftp only, no shell).
The sftp user needs rw access to a host directory. I mounted it via /etc/fstab
/var/www/html /home/sftp-user/jail/html none ...
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df differs from du a lot, nfsd service seems matter
I know there have been a lot of discussion on the df/du discrepancy topic. But here I’d post a special issue and ask for some hints.
here is the detail( with a hardware raid5 with 6 sas disks)
system ...
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df command reports that drive is full, even though it is not
When I run df -h (Debian 10, 32-bit), I get this:
root@valor:~# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
udev 488M 0 488M 0% /dev
tmpfs 100M 5.4M 95M 6% /...
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tracking down a bash process for a df command
I’m using the tips on this SO thread.
ps -awux|grep df
root 15826 0.0 0.0 0 0 ? I< May22 0:00 [cifs-dfscache]
myuser 3086246 0.0 0.0 216860 3212 ? Ss 16:06 ...
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increase the space in var partition on Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster)
I'm running docker containers on my machine which puts it all in /var/. DF shows that /var/ is 6.9G and no free space. The Linux system is running under VMWare and I've given the server extra 100 GB'...
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Partition at 51% with df while folders are empty? [duplicate]
I need some help on this one.
I use a test server which is Debian 10 with Docker's containers (all these inside a XCP-NG server).
# df -h
Sys. de fichiers Taille Utilisé Dispo Uti% Monté sur
/...
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Why does df -h still show 100% full even after deleting files?
The disk space on my Ubuntu web server, running on DigitalOcean, seems to be full. I have already found and deleted the large log file and restarted Nginx. However, it still seems like there is a ...
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Which directories are not consiered by df?
I've used df -h to show me my disk usage:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda2 558G 249G 308G 45% /
udev 10M 0 10M 0% /dev
tmpfs 6.3G 8....
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Near 100% disk usage, df and du show very different results, lsof not the answer
The issue is that my CentOS 5.8 machine is telling me that I am nearly out of disk space when I am pretty confident this is not the case. I've done a fair amount of researching on this issue and have ...
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fdisk -l show 500GB, df -h show 240 gb
after incrase the disk space of my centos vm (in esxi hypervisor)
when i execute fdsik
[root@sopiqecommerce ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 504.7 GB, 504658657280 bytes, 985661440 sectors
Units = ...
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df requires root to show all disks
I am using CentOS Linux 7 (Core).
I have an issue with df command: it do not show all disks without root.
Compare:
$ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/...
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df not showing subdirectories, only "multiple" parent directory
For example, we have directory structure:
Root Directory
Directory #1
Subdirectory #1
Subdirectory #2
Subdirectory #3
Directory #2
Directory #3
Now I'm using df -h to check disk usage but:
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Mounts happening on boot, but not defined in /etc/fstab
On every boot, my machine (CentOS 7) mounts all these:
# df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 30G 2.6G 28G 9% /
devtmpfs 287M 0 287M 0% /dev
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how do i understand where a directory is mounted?
Ubuntu / DigitalOcean
I have a drive that is almost full but I have mounted a storage device. But I can't tell if a particular directory is on the external device or not.
I thought I mounted the ...
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CentOS 7 disk space [duplicate]
I have a Centos7 server in which when executing the command df -h the occupied disk space is of 90GB but if I do a du -sh / * the sum of all directories does not correspond to 90GB, in this case it is ...
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df shows 2 GB size fdisk shows 60 GB
My newly purchased KVM based VPS (virtual server) running Centos 7 shows a - to my mind - odd result for the df -h command versus fdisk -l and ssm list.
I've put the output of various disk related ...
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Mounted device showing in df and /etc/mtab but missing from /proc/mounts and /proc/self/mounts. Why?
I have an ec2 instance that is booted from an ebs snapshot. The boot device is /dev/sda1. When I call mount, df -h or cat /etc/fstab I can see the device:
$ mount
/dev/sda1 on / type ext3 (rw)
$ df -...
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df reporting incorrect disk utilization
Why df reporting incorrect disk utilization report
$ df -h /shareddata
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/mapper/share_vg-lv_shareddata
886G 830G 11G ...
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Centos Server no disk space but df says there is plenty [duplicate]
my Centos tells me that I have no disk space left:
[root@zff isos]# touch test
touch: cannot touch ‘test’: No space left on device
But df tells me that I have plenty of space left:
[root@zff isos]# ...
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df -h says / fs is taking 61G of space but its not [duplicate]
df -h in my redhat 7 is reporting its taking 61G of space. This should be wrong because there shouldn't be anything there which is this big. Other server with the same configuration reports only 11G.
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Ubuntu thinks disk is full, df says disk usage is at 100% but also says 132G/400G is in use [duplicate]
Other applications are saying the disk is full as well, any ideas?
Here's the output from df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 400G 132G 714M 100% /
none ...
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No more space on FreeNAS 9.3. But only half of space actually in use based on "du -sh" command
This morning I got a warning on my FreeNAS 9.3 machine about "Not enough space"
warning: The capacity for the volume 'SeanVolume' is currently at 85%, while the recommended value is below 80%.
It's ...
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df report incorrect free space for a filesystem (ext4)
I am facing an issue with wrong fs space reported by df.
We are talking about bare metal Ubuntu 14.04 server, with the / partition managed by LVM.
Size reported by df is different from the size ...
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df -h show system full even after clearing bloated log folder [duplicate]
I had my php_errors.log file fill up the system, I deleted the error logs, but when I type
df -h www/folder_name
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
bindfs 7.8G 7.4G 379M 96% ...
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Changing the filesystem name in df
Currently in our code we check for disk space usage to stop doing something if the filesystem is above 95% in disk space usage. The way I'm checking for that is :
diskusage=$(df -P | grep "/dev/...
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What is stored on a LVM LogicalVolume
I have setup a LXC container with LVM as backingstore. On the host the command lvs --units m outputs the following:
LV VG Attr LSize Pool Origin Data% Move Log Copy% ...
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Mount updates /proc/mount but not /etc/mtab, making partition not show up in df, mount listing
I'm on RHEL 6. I created some partitions using parted, formatted them using mke2fs, and mounted them using mount. I also added them to /etc/fstab. However, they do not show up in the mount or df ...
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