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Finding files that use the most disk space

August 9, 2022 by Magenaut

Is it possible to list the largest files on my hard drive? I frequently use df -H to display my disk usage, but this only gives the percentage full, GBs remaining, etc.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags df, linux, ubuntu Leave a comment

Tell fs to free space from deleted files NOW

August 8, 2022 by Magenaut

Is there a way to tell the kernel to give back the free disk space now? Like a write to something in /proc/ ? Using Ubuntu 11.10 with ext4.

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags df, disk-usage, ext3, ext4, proc Leave a comment

Why is df -h size, util and dispo not corresponding to each other

August 7, 2022 by Magenaut

When I’m using the command “df -h” I’m having the following output :

Categories Q&A, Unix & Linux Tags df, lvm, size Leave a comment
  1. michealSmith07 on Is there a way to dynamically refresh the less command?August 21, 2022

    That is a very nice post. I like this post.

  2. anonymous on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianJune 27, 2022

    saved my day!! Thanks for the help…

  3. sreedhar on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    Thanks its working

  4. saintnick on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianMay 10, 2022

    remove libwacom2 worked for me as well

  5. ranafoul on Fix libwacom9 dependency issue when upgrade DebianApril 22, 2022

    apt remove libwacom2 helped on kali 2022.01. gr8

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