Questions tagged [df]
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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. So eventually, the server gets filled up (df…
user11350
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du vs. df difference
I have a fileserver where df reports 94% of / full. But according to du, much less is used:
# df -h /
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 270G 240G 17G 94% /
# du -hxs /
124G /
I read that open but…
Andreas Kuntzagk
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Disk space usage doesn't add up with df & du
I'm trying to free up some disk space - if I do a df -h, I have a filesystem called /dev/mapper/vg00-var which says its 4G, 3.8G used, 205M left.
That corresponds to my /var directory.
If I descend into /var and do du -kscxh *, the total is…
Codecraft
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Why does `df` indicate no available space when used is much less than total size, on my VPS?
My VPS display this with df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/simfs 100G 46G 0 100% /
Does anyone have a idea to fix this ?
Guillaume LUNIK
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Ubuntu server: hard drive always full
I have a 50GB vps
when I run df I get
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda1 49982172 46580100 863064 99% /
none 507212 172 507040 1% /dev
none …
Krayons
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Why does df shows only half the size of a RAID10 array?
I've created a RAID10 array using 4 75G drives, to create a storage of 150G.
After everything finished (including the initial syncing), everything looked good except the output of df -h which showed only 73G storage on the designated mount…
Doron
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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 reported by fs super-block. Also calculating size from…
Tom Lime
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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 problem.
df shows that it's still full:
$ df -h…
Andrew
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"Write Error: No space left on device" when df displays 60% of free space?
It's been happening for the last few weeks in a small unix server (it doesn't have all standard unix commands, just the basics included in the BusyBox package) that I was configuring to backup files.
If we check the free space of the server it…
mickael
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inconsistency between du -sh and df -h
I know this is a common occurrence when the result of du -sh is smaller than that returned by the file system with df -h. (Because some files are still open in processes etc..) But in my case I have the opposite.
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 and trying…
D.Mill
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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
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/nvme0n1p2 228G 14G 203G 7%…
Nyxynyx
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list linux partition names only in bash
df on linux lists the following stats on partitions.
-bash-4.1# df
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 1918217320 1473337340 347440136 81% /
tmpfs 32970328 0 32970328 …
user12145
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Next-gen filesystems: disk space usage log?
From time to time I run into problems when server hard disks (Linux) fill up quickly with lots of small files. When this happens I have to try to figure out how much space is being taken up and where the files are that are taking up the space. This…
Tom Scrace
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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 of no use running the scrub command after a period…
陳敬翔
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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 been unable to find a solution.
'df -h' shows…
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