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`df` command throws error on /run/user/1000/doc/ folder

When reviewing my daily logwatch report, I noticed a new df error this morning. I noticed the unusual error at the top of the df listing. $ df (when run manually from my own account) df: /run/user/1000/doc: Operation not permitted or (when run via…
heynnema
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How to fix exfat filesystem

So we accidentally caused our server to go down without a clean shutdown and now df is reporting wrong stats for the external usb (exfat). root@srv1:/backup/usbdisk# df -h Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sdb2 3.6T 2.8T …
madpoet
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Prevent du command report inflated info about /snap directories

I have an Ubuntu 20.04 server installed on a single 8GB drive. The default installation has some "snap"s installed also. So, there are some "squashfs" file systems also reported by the df command: # df -mT Filesystem Type 1M-blocks Used…
FedKad
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What is difference between ls -lh and du -sh?

$ ls -lh file1.tar -rw-r--r-- 1 wnice wnice 40K Aug 6 20:41 file1.tar $ du -sh file1.tar 80K file1.tar Why is it showing different sizes of same file? Please help me understand
Nitin Kumar
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df -h doesn't show /dev/sda

I am using df -h to get my disk space and the results are: Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on udev 2.0G 4.0K 2.0G 1% /dev tmpfs 396M 436K 395M 1% /run /dev/vda1 59G …
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'df' command doesn't show file system requested in ubuntu 14.04

This strange behavior begins a few day ago. This is df of all file system michele@OptiPlex-360:~$ df File system 1K-blocchi Usati Disponib. Uso% Montato su udev 1974808 8 1974800 1% /dev tmpfs 397120 …
Michele Biemmi
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Utility says there's no more free disk space, when there's plenty

Somehow my system is in a pickle. $ sudo apt-get install -f Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Correcting dependencies... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are…
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Recovering deleted files with rm -rf

I accidentally deleted a directory with rm -rf /media/directory When using ls -lh /media the space appears to be free, but when I use df or open the file manager nautilus or pantheon, it shows that the previously occupied space is still…
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df -h displays /cow as one of the devices what does this mean?

In addition to the other storage devices on my laptop, running df -h displays /cow as one of the devices. What does this mean?
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What is "udev" and "tmpfs"

I run the command df -h and it showed that udev has a size of 471M and the other 5 tmpfs have an estimated size of 1.1G. What should I do to them?
user964536
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Finding my swap partition

It looks like I have 40 GB of swap: wuser@wavesftwDell:~$ cat /proc/swaps Filename Type Size Used Priority /dev/dm-1 partition 40959996 956 …
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Ubuntu 14.04: df prints full UUID

For some reason, the output format for df changed after a recent kernel update in Ubuntu 14.04. When I run df -hl to show all mounted filesystems, the output looks like this: bwvdnbro@wixie:~/Projects$ df -hl Filesystem Size Used Avail Use%…
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Disk full after copying between external HDDs

I was copying 500 GB files from an external HDD to another external HDD and suddenly the local memory was running out? When the copy was completed I rebooted and I get now a black screen. Logged in via SSH from another machine and the df -h command…
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df reports negative used storage on Ubuntu server

I am running Ubuntu server on a machine with multiple hard drives and partitions. Recently, I split the system partition into two, sda2 and sda3. sda2 contains the system files, sda3 is mapped using LUKS and mounted into /home. Today I was a bit…
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Understanding the df command output

Below is an output of df command # df /boot Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/sda2 122835 26732 89550 23% /boot I cannot figure out how the "Available" column is calculated. It doesn't equal: …
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