Problem changing owner and permissions on new external drive I just installed a new 2TB external drive (Ubuntu 20.04), created one partition, and formatted it to ext4. I mounted it to /mnt/ssk2TB. Now the drive shows in my Nautilus file explorer, but when I use copy-paste to copy a file to the new drive, I …
How to anticipate the time before disk space would be close to exhaustion? I have a task to make alerts if there’s free disk space for only 2 hours for dinamycally growing directory. Honestly I don’t know what’s the best way to it. I’m not sure if the space will grow linearly and there would …
Is there some universally recommended Reserved block count (for root) for large Ext4 drives? By the following question: Is there some universally recommended Reserved block count (for root) for large Ext4 drives? I specifically mean the following: Let us consider (almost) everyone has a rather large root drive (partition) nowadays. Let us consider for example …
System drive (1TB) 82% full? All "my" files are on separate HDD This is a desktop system, with a 1TB SSD for the OS Xubuntu 20.04.6, and several HDDs for all my files. So the OS shouldn’t be taking up that much space. But there’s the output of df: Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted …
How to get the size of a large directory? How can I get the size of a large directory with lot of small sub-directories on Linux? I just want the total size the parent directory. I tried du -s mydirectory/ but it is taking a long time to execute and I cannot keep the terminal …
Disk storage full First of all, I am a complete beginner to Ubuntu. I was trying to follow along the Ubuntu dual boot installation section from Odin project. According to the guide, I allocated two partitions, the root partition to mount the systems files, and /Home partition to house apps & personal files. After installing …
How to move .julia folder to another partition in Ubuntu? I use the Julia programming language on a Chromebook with only 32 GB internal storage. The .julia directory in the home folder consumes several gigabytes of space. This directory contains all the julia packages (similar to python libraries), and it is essential for Julia to …
Can't write to Live CD system I am not new to Linux, but am new to creating my own virtual machine environment. I am using Linux to learn how to do penetration testing, and have been required to download lots of different software to do so. I added a virtual hard drive to my machine, …
df and where a folder is mounted I have linux system. When I do df I get something like Filesystem 1k-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on …. some data here /dev/mmcblk0pyy yyy yyy 0 100% / /dev/mmcblk0pxx xxxx xxx xxxx 98% /thefolder Now, when I do ls / I got a list of some folders …
22.04.2 server image is *three* times the size of 22.04.1: why? I’m sorry to have to say it, but the 22.04.2 server install has exploded. Unreasonably. What’s going on? I’ve been packaging Ubuntu-based VMs for several years, first on 20.04.x, then 22.04, 22.04.1, and now 22.04.2. These are based on the server downloads. The last …
How to find the disk usage ONLY of 2nd level dirs? I have the following dir structure: relative_path/ app1/ data config trash other_app/ inputs outputs garbage anything_else/ v1/ v1.5 v2/ I need to figure out the disk usage of each dir only on the second level (e.g. relative_path/anything_else/v1, but not relative_path/anything_else nor relative_path/anything_else/v1/v1.5) If I …
Does a user need executable permissions to be able to run du (disk usage)? I am observing the following behaviour, and want to know if it is expected. I am trying to run disk usage ( du ) as user2 on a directory test_directory which is owned by user1. If I change the permissions to …
What's the POSIX-compliant way to get the size of a file or folder in bytes? According to the Open Group specs, POSIX du doesn’t have the -b option to display the size in bytes. So what is the POSIX-compliant way to get the size of a file or folder in bytes? Asked By: finefoot || …
I increased VM storage from Virtual Media Manager in VBox but it is not applied in VM Here is how I increased the storage of the VM in the VBox interface: I used Virtual Media Manager. When I click Information: Format: VDI Storage details: Dynamically allocated Using the suggestion, I also used the command to …
How do you utilize expansion as space on Ubuntu? I’m using Ubuntu 22.04. It was installed with an ISO image from a USB stick of 6TB. It however produces "Low disk space" error. df -h returns: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on tmpfs 3,2G 2,5M 3,2G 1% /run /dev/nvme0n1p5 39G 30G 7,6G 80% / …
Why doesn't df show the filesystem disk space of the path that I give it? I am trying to see the filesystem space in my system but even if I change location it still shows the same space. I see the man page and as far as I understand I am passing the right argument. …
parted + is it correct to create disk partitions in Linux only by percentage we want to create 2 partitions from each new disk by parted command as the following example: sdg 8:96 0 50G 0 disk ├─sdg1 8:97 0 25G 0 part └─sdg2 8:98 0 25G 0 part as example above disk size is …
what does %util mean in iostat command output? if it is 100%, can we add more workload on it? recently I was asked this question during a phone interview. I know that iostat command can be used to check disk performance in Linux. But I am not sure how to answer this question. Does this …
revert logical partitions to original disk I have a disk that somehow split into what appear to be logical partitions, but I am unsure. How to revert to the original disk? Here is the list of drives shown by fdisk -l: /dev/mmcblk0 /dev/mmcblk0boot0 /dev/mmcblk0boot1 lsblk identifies each of these as disks, but according to blkid, …
How can I find the files that Filelight isn't showing? DiskFree shows 227GB used; Filelight shows only 89GB used Ubuntu 20.04, with KDE installed on top. I’m running low on space on my root drive. Which isn’t that big of a deal because I can always just move things to the other drives on my …
