Questions tagged [diskspace]
Issues relating to availability of disk space.
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Is it okay to delete the macOS Xcode CoreSimulator devices folder?
My ~/Library/Developer/CoreSimulator/Devices folder is 26 GB.
Is it safe to just delete all the content? Will those files be automatically regenerated?
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Android SDK folder taking a lot of disk space. Do we need to keep all of the System Images?
There are a lot of system images piling up on my disk in the android sdk folder. i hardly use the emulator. May be once in 6 months. Most of my development is directly on device. What i wanted to ...
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How do I monitor the computer's CPU, memory, and disk usage in Java?
I would like to monitor the following system information in Java:
Current CPU usage** (percent)
Available memory* (free/total)
Available disk space (free/total)
*Note that I mean overall memory ...
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How to detect total available/free disk space on the iPhone/iPad device?
I'm looking for a better way to detect available/free disk space on the iPhone/iPad device programmatically.
Currently I'm using the NSFileManager to detect the disk space. Following is the snippet of ...
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Why is docker image eating up my disk space that is not used by docker
I have setup docker and I have used completely different block device to store docker's system data:
[root@blink1 /]# cat /etc/sysconfig/docker
# /etc/sysconfig/docker
other_args="-H tcp://0.0.0.0:...
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Docker container logs taking all my disk space
I am running a container on a VM. My container is writing logs by default to /var/lib/docker/containers/CONTAINER_ID/CONTAINER_ID-json.log file until the disk is full.
Currently, I have to delete ...
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Docker filling up storage on macOS
(Post created on Oct 05 '16)
I noticed that every time I run an image and delete it, my system doesn't return to the original amount of available space.
The lifecycle I'm applying to my containers is:
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Android get free size of internal/external memory
I want to get the size of free memory on internal/external storage of my device programmatically. I'm using this piece of code :
StatFs stat = new StatFs(Environment.getExternalStorageDirectory()....
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Get free disk space
Given each of the inputs below, I'd like to get free space on that location. Something like
long GetFreeSpace(string path)
Inputs:
c:
c:\
c:\temp
\\server
\\server\C\storage
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ElasticSearch find disk space usage
How can I find the amount of disk space that Elastic Search is using for my indexes? I'm currently running it locally and I'm trying to see how much disk space I will need on the VM that I'll be ...
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Find size and free space of the filesystem containing a given file
I'm using Python 2.6 on Linux. What is the fastest way:
to determine which partition contains a given directory or file?
For example, suppose that /dev/sda2 is mounted on /home, and /dev/mapper/foo ...
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du counting hardlinks towards filesize?
I have a backup system that creates directories named after Unix Timestamps, and then creates incremental backups using a hardlink system (--link-dest in rsync), so typically the first backup is very ...
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How to find how much disk space is left using Java?
How to find how much disk space is left using Java?
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Postgresql find total disk space used by a database
I have more than 50 databases hosted in my postgresql server. I need to move some of them on another host, to free-up some disk space,but how can I measure the disk-space used by each database on my ...
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Cross-platform space remaining on volume using python
I need a way to determine the space remaining on a disk volume using python on linux, Windows and OS X. I'm currently parsing the output of the various system calls (df, dir) to accomplish this - is ...
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How to check if IOException is Not-Enough-Disk-Space-Exception type?
How can I check if IOException is a "Not enough disk space" exception type?
At the moment I check to see if the message matches something like "Not enough disk space", but I know that this won't work ...
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How to solve jenkins 'Disk space is too low' issue?
I have deployed Jenkins in my CentOS machine, Jenkins was working well for 3 days, but yesterday there was a Disk space is too low. Only 1.019GB left. problem.
How can I solve this problem, it make ...
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TFS creates a $tf folder with gigabytes of .gz files. Can I safely delete it?
I am using visual studio 2012 with Microsoft TFS 2012.
On the workspace that is created on my c: drive, a hidden folder $tf is created. I suspect TFS from creating this folder. It's lurking diskspace ...
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Disk usage of files whose names match a regex, in Linux?
So, in many situations I wanted a way to know how much of my disk space is used by what, so I know what to get rid of, convert to another format, store elsewhere (such as data DVDs), move to another ...
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Get amount of free disk space using Go
Basically I want the output of df -h, which includes both the free space and the total size of the volume. The solution needs to work on Windows, Linux, and Mac and be written in Go.
I have looked ...
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How to find the amount of free storage (disk space) left on Android? [duplicate]
I am trying to figure out the available disk space on the Android phone running my application. Is there a way to do this programmatically?
Thanks,
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What is the current full install size of Cygwin?
Every source I found online says a full installation of Cygwin takes over 1 GB, but mine is only 100 MB. I was pretty sure I downloaded everything from the mirror servers, but the install ...
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du in PowerShell?
How can I get a du-ish analysis using PowerShell? I'd like to periodically check the size of directories on my disk.
The following gives me the size of each file in the current directory:
foreach ($...
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Get free space on internal memory
Is it possible to get the amount of free memory on an Android device (not on the SD CARD) via the Android SDK?
If so, how?
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Auto compact the deleted space in mongodb?
The mongodb document says that
To compact this space, run db.repairDatabase() from the mongo shell (note this operation will block and is slow).
in http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Excessive+...
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Increase Disk Space on Docker Toolbox
I'm trying to start some very large Containers on Docker Toolbox (about 18 GB in total). Unfortunately, I always get the error that there is not enough disk space. I have a 1TB HDD and there are more ...
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Any way to keep curl's cookies in memory and not on disk
I'm doing some cURL work in php 5.3.0.
I'm wondering if there is any way to tell the curl handle/object to keep the cookies in memory (assuming I'm reusing the same handle for multiple requests), or ...
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Easiest way to simulate no free disk space situation?
I need to test my web app in a scenario where there’s no disk space remaining, i.e. I cannot write any more files. But I don’t want to fill my hard drive with junk just to make sure there’s really no ...
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Trying to resize2fs EB volume fails [closed]
I have a 200GB EBS volume and am trying to increase the space available. I followed the instructions on: http://www.hellersoftware.com/2012/resize-ebs-volume-attached-to-amazon-web-services-ec2-...
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How to get available/free sdcard space in android with adb command
I am trying to get free sdcard space with adb command, but I could not able to achieve. Any suggestions how to get the sdcard space.
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What is Docker.qcow2?
I was looking at my disk with DaisyDisk and I have a 30GB something called Docker.qcow2. More specifically, DaisyDisk puts it under ~/Library/Containers/com.docker.docker/Data/vms/0/Docker.qcow2. Is ...
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Get current CPU, RAM and Disk drive usage in C#
How to get the CPU, RAM and Disk drive usage of the system in C# code?
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Eclipse .metadata\.plugins disk space
Eclipse's .metadata/.plugins seems to consume way too much space (235 MB), is there something I can safely throw away and still be happy?
I archive my source root, and this seems to take away all my ...
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Get available diskspace in ruby
What is the best way to get diskspace information with ruby.
I would prefer a pure ruby solution. If not possible (even with additional gems), it could also use any command available in a standard ...
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Measure disk space of certain file types in aggregate
I have some files across several folders:
/home/d/folder1/a.txt
/home/d/folder1/b.txt
/home/d/folder1/c.mov
/home/d/folder2/a.txt
/home/d/folder2/d.mov
/home/d/folder2/folder3/f.txt
How can I ...
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What does "write failed: No space left on device" mean?
I am getting these errors on my site, yet i haven't changed any code or anything, so I don't why this is happening.
Warning: Unknown(): write failed: No space left on device (28) in Unknown on line 0
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Find free disk space in python on OS/X
I'm looking for the number of free bytes on my HD, but have trouble doing so on python.
I've tried the following:
import os
stat = os.statvfs(path)
print stat.f_bsize * stat.f_bavail
But, on OS/X ...
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Running out of disk space EC2
I ran into some issues with my EC2 micro instance and had to terminate it and create a new one in its place. But it seems even though the old instance is no longer visible in the list, it is still ...
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What is the unix command to see how much disk space there is and how much is remaining?
I'm looking for the equivalent of right clicking on the drive in windows and seeing the disk space used and remaining info.
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How can I check for available disk space?
I need a way to check available disk space on a remote Windows server before copying files to that server. Using this method I can check to see if the primary server is full and if it is, then I'll ...
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How to find out the free disk space for a given path on a linux shell? [closed]
1) I am in some directory
2) I want to find out how much free space is left there
Is there a simple command that does this? I don't want to look in fstab or whatever, having to map the devices & ...
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How to get the current free disk space in Postgres?
I need to be sure that I have at least 1Gb of free disk space before start doing some work in my database. I'm looking for something like this:
select pg_get_free_disk_space();
Is it possible? (I ...
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Data size in memory vs. on disk
How does the RAM required to store data in memory compare to the disk space required to store the same data in a file? Or is there no generalized correlation?
For example, say I simply have a ...
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R How to estimate csv file size prior to writing it to disk
Is there any way in R to estimate the file size of a csv file prior to actually writing it to disk via write.csv or readr::write_csv? I would like to implement a warning if the user accidentially ...
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Finding out total and free disk space in .NET
I am trying to find a way to determine the total and available disk space in an arbitrary folder from a .NET app. By "total disk space" and "available disk space" in a folder I refer to the total and ...
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How can I reduce the size of a Subversion repository?
I have a pair of svn repositories which are significantly larger than others. They're not too big for svn, but they're taking a lot of disk space I'd rather be using for something else.
What ...
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Docker changing /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff location
Docker folder /var/lib/docker/aufs/diff grows too much and I would like to move it on an other partition.
Is there a way to configure Docker to use another location for this foder?
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Git disk usage per branch
Do you know if there is a way to list the space usage of a git repository per branch ? (like df or du would)
By "the space usage" for a branch I mean "the space used by the commits which are not yet ...
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Amazon EC2 and EBS disk space problem
I am having a problem reconciling the space available on my EBS volume. According to the AWS console the volume is 50GB and is attached to an instance.
If I ssh to this instance and do a df -h, I get ...
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TFS Branching and Disk Space
I've been thinking over some branching strategies (creating branches per feature, maybe per developer since we're a small group) and was wondering if anyone had experienced any issues. Does creating ...
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