the amount of space on a computer storage device, such as a hard disk, SSD, or USB flash drive
Questions tagged [disk-space]
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Why is devfs full?
A simple df -h reports:
Filesystem Size Used Avail Capacity iused ifree %iused Mounted on
/dev/disk0s2 465Gi 201Gi 264Gi 44% 52634885 69251887 43% /
devfs 180Ki 180Ki 0Bi 100% 622 0 100% …
Kellen Stuart
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How do I find how much disk space a program is occupying?
How do I find out how much disk space a program such as Skype occupies?
My SSD is getting full, and I want to see what can be deleted.
David Faux
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Deleting files for freeing the disk space
My MBA (OS 10.9.5) is showing messages of full disk. So I checked the big files in the system. However I don't want to mess with system files as I don't know anything about them. So asking the fellow gentlemen, if it is safe to delete any of the…
lawsome
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What is the macOS (10.14.6) equivalent of --exclude in du?
What is the macOS (10.14.6) equivalent of --exclude in du ?
du -hs --exclude=./node_modules/
du: illegal option -- -
usage: du [-H | -L | -P] [-a | -s | -d depth] [-c] [-h | -k | -m | -g] [-x] [-I mask] [file ...]
anjanesh
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Disk usage: How to only show max depth folders?
I want to use the du command so I can find the folders on my system that are bigger than a certain size.
The problem with du are the results I get.
For example, I get all theses folders as…
politicus
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How can I change the number format in Disk Inventory X?
I'm using Disk Inventory X to find what is taking up the most disk space, and I've noticed that it formats numbers oddly, it particular, the placement of the comma. For example: 2,01.5 GB and 1,24.8 GB.
I would much rather not have the comma at all,…
Flimm
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Docker prune - no disk space reclaimed
I'm not totally sure whether this is an Apple question or a Docker question, but I think it's mostly about Apple's file system reporting.
I've been using Docker various times over the past months/years, and meanwhile I've been noticing my local disk…
Ken Williams
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Deleted files on external disc do not increase disc space
I have deleted view files on an external ssd disk Samsung T7 Shield 1TB, but disc space did not increased. It means that if disc space has for example 300 MB avaiable space and I am deleting file which has 100 MB, I have still 300 MB, not 400 MB.…
PIOTR
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is it safe to delete adat files when clearing up space in Mac?
Adat files are taking a lot of space in my Mac hard disk. They are in "Other" folder. Apparently are an application file.
I read that there are some application's files that are created when using the app and can be deleted afterwards, but not sure…
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df result obviously wrong
I just deleted a large (50 Gb) file and have emptied the recycle bin but df -h still reports my disk as only having 31Gi available. As the result from df is effectively instantaneous it must be using a cached result. What triggers it to bust the…
AJP
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Not enough storage space on MacBook Air SSD
As a newbie to Macs I thought putting files into iCloud would save me SSD space, but now I see that is not the case. I also have Dropbox and I was wondering if there is a way to transfer files from iCloud to Dropbox and use Dropbox's selective sync…
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Finder and About this mac shows different free space sizes?
Which one shows the correct value and how can I make room for ghost application allocated space?
do it better
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I'm a little confused about my disk utlliization
My daisy disk shows my disk utilisation like this. I have a 128 gb disk. Why does it show as ~72gb.
Mukul
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