So, today I have realized that free space on my desktop was suspiciously low (I had only about 60 GB free space). I have a 500 GB SSD and a 500 GB regular hard drive for back up. I don't have a ton of programs installed to start with. Regardless, I uninstalled some unused programs, did a disk cleanup, and cleared my downloads folder.   Now, what is mind boggling is that I still have only about 100 GB empty space. If I grab everything in my C drive and check used space, it says 60 GB. I expect some discrepancy due to numerous reasons. But frankly, having 60 GB worth of files but 376 GB used space is confusing.  Any help is greatly appreciated. Also this is my first time posting, so go easy on me :P  Thank you.
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How can I visualize which folders and files are taking up all of the space on my hard drive?  I'm getting some conflicting reports on the size of hard drive contents. Namely what is and isn't there and what folders are actually using the space.   I need to know which of the files or folders the culprits behind all this hidden bloat. Also there should be a print option to get it on paper.
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I have a Laptop with 1TB hard disk space. I can allocate 100GB for Ubuntu. Currently there is only Windows 7 installed. I am new to Ubuntu &amp; am confused by terms like mount point, root partition, swap partition, etc. The doc over  gives some details, but I dont know what they mean. For installing Ubuntu I have shrunk 100GB from a drive &amp; now that space is unallocated. So what should I do now? In how many partitions should I divide that space &amp; what conventions should be followed. Should I do this in the Ubuntu installer or should I do all this before installing Ubuntu? Please I dont understand the terminologies used on that doc so please tell me in simple language. Thank You.
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I was wondering how do you know where the largest files in my system are stored.  For example---  Disk Space Used: 1GB Java: 500MB Java Percentage: 50% maybe represented in a pie chart. Maybe?  I know this maybe a feature overkill. I sometimes forget having stored things and wonder why my disk is so full.   So basically a command that will allow me to run on the file system and provide me with information on disk space used.  Please and thank you.
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I have a Win7 laptop with a 750Gig C: drive.  It came partitioned with 714Gig usable from manufacturer.  I installed programs, music files, etc up to 285 gigs.  As of a few weeks ago it showed 285 Gigs.  Two weeks of house guests later and it shows HD is full.  I deleted some files but it still shows 652 Gigs on this drive while there are only 285 Gigs on drive.  Relevant details:   I am Administrator on laptop and have fair knowledge of what I am doing. I did not restore from backup, restore from mirror, upgrade HD's or anything else that would have touched the partition structure.  Just daily use as imaging machine and web. I have checked partitions under disk administrator - no change, still partitioned with 714Gigs usable. Have looked through computer C drive by hand showing Hidden files and folders - no change. I have used JDisk Report to double check - it shows I have only 285 Gigs on C drive. I triple checked with TreeSize run as Administrator and it also shows 285 Gigs on C drive - yet Windows 7 still shows almost full. I used Windows 7 Utilities to Check for Disk Errors, and Defragged the drive.  No errors shown and no change after Defrag.
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Can anyone help explain why there is 17 GB worth of free space on my LVG I can't seem to do anything with this space. Is there anyway to fix this? I have already reformatted the disk then cloned the contents back with CCC. I also have FileVault enabled.  Whenever I see this on others setups it is usually a few KB not 17 GB
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I have a strange discrepancy in the amount of free disk space that's being reported. The finder says:  My iStat Menus says:  Which is the same as df -h reports: remco@Prosperpine ~  $ df -h Filesystem                          Size   Used  Avail Capacity  iused   ifree %iused  Mounted on /dev/disk0s2                       148Gi  127Gi   21Gi    87% 33479179 5383643   86%   / devfs                              187Ki  187Ki    0Bi   100%      646       0  100%   /dev map -hosts                           0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /net map auto_home                        0Bi    0Bi    0Bi   100%        0       0  100%   /home  Why would such a large difference occur? I've checked the disk using the disk utility and it does not report having any issues. Specs: Late 2011 MacBook Pro 17&quot;, non-Apple Intel 160GB SSD, OSX Mountain Lion 10.8.2
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I have an 8GB iPhone 4s and it always says I have no space. However when I go into Settings &gt; General &gt; Usage It says that I have 1.3GB of free space. I only have 5 photos and 3 Apps downloaded on my iPhone. Why does it constantly say I have no space when it should?
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I am wondering, when you select the option of just "Try Ubuntu" instead of installing, where does Ubuntu store the files that you download / copy / save?  I right click in the Home folder, and it specified I had 4GB free space. Where did it get this 4GB space from, and if I transition to another OS system, how can I access or delete all the previous data from the session of "Try Ubuntu"?  Thank you!
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I have a paid 100GB Google Drive plan. It is reporting that I am at 99% capacity.  According to the the storage both within the desktop and web application, I have used 90.53GB within Drive.    My Drive is mapped to my OS X filesystem, and when fully synched it reports only 61.28GB used.    So what is going on here? I need to do a cleanup but cannot account for the 30GB difference.
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Is there a way to quickly check the amount of free / used disk space in Ubuntu?  I would assume you could right click on 'file system' in the file browser and choose 'properties' or something but there is no such option.
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There is only one partition for both system files and personal data, which is C:. The other two partitions are for boot and for recovery.  Now I have two different reports on the size of C: on my Windows 7:   by clicking the property of C:, it shows 59.4 GB for "used space"; by selecting all contents (I have setup to view all hidden files and directories) under C: and viewing their property, it shows 46.9 GB for "size" and 47.6 GB for "size on disk".   Here are my questions:   I was wondering why the two reports are not the same, and where the difference comes? in the second way, why "size" and "size on disk" are different? What do they mean actually? What is the difference between them and "used space" in the first way?   Thanks in advance!
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I have a 230 Gigs HDD on my laptop, i have 50 gigs extended for my linux, i have 80 gigs empty ntfs partition, and 100 gigs ntfs partition where i store all my important data, (i have about 50 gigs of important things) today i mounted the 100 gigs partition took something from it, unmounted it back, and then when i mounted it again it was EMPTY !!! all the data is gone !!!! i used to mount it via the terminal : sudo mount ntfs /dev/sda5 /media/E where E is a dir that i make (when i make it i change the permissions of media to 777 then after creating the dir, i change it back to normal)  Guys you cant imagine how much this data is important to me, Plz HelP,  thnx in advance
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The icon shows that it's full. I just deleted stuff, so I know that it's full. But when I open it, it doesn't show the deleted items. The only option I have is to restore them or empty them.  Help me out. It's VERY VERY important for me to fix this problem since I use this workstation for my studio purposes.  P.S. It's a Windows 7 Ultimate (x86) machine.
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I have a Macbook Air(6,2) with 120 GB SSD. When I checked About This Mac --> Storage, I see inconsistent information.    It says 87.89 GB free but Apps take up 92.65 GB. So there should only be about 30 GB free according to the graphic. However, I believe the graphic is wrong because OmniDiskSweeper says Macintosh HD is ~30GB.   Why do the graphic and numbers disagree?
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Here's my problem  I'm trying to do a cleanup of my hard drive, and I'm constantly seeing this scenario:  (1) Aggregate folder size: I check the folder size viewing properties right clicking the folder  (2) Individual folder/file sizes: I check the individual file/folder sizes belonging to that folder viewing properties on the individual file/folder sizes, and then adding them up (with hidden and system files shown).   These two figures are always different, sometimes by a large margin.   For instance, my C drive now, by method (1), shows a consumed space of 42.4 GB.   However, by method (2), by inspecting the respective files/folders, the total consumed space adds up only to 33.1 GB. This is a 28% discrepancy (over the smaller file size) and I have no idea where the rest of the space is going.   My hard drive is constantly in danger of being full (it's bootcamp on a mac with 50 GB of partitioned space), and there's not much I've got installed in terms of software, nor do I have large media files like movies, downloads, temp files, application temp files, torrents, etc.   Most of it's just consumed by the files in C:/Windows, but last I checked, I don't know enough to know which files to delete, and I've heard that you really can't do anything about the space boggling winsxs and system32.   Can you guys recommend a starting point to free up disk space?  Thanks!!  Baggio.
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I have a similar issue as . You can pretty much take his screen shot and apply it to my issue: Windows 8.1, 99% disk usage or in that vicinity for a longer period of time (minutes). Yet the individual disk usage stats don't add up to more than roughly 1MB/Sec. I have an SSD disk capable of much higher throughput.  The question I linked to doesn't provide much answer, but one comment hints to low free disk space. That is an issue with my disk. I have only ~1GB left of free space on my C drive. But my follow-up question is why would that matter? Windows does pre-allocate 6GB of virtual drive, doesn't it? At least that's how I interpret "currently allocated" in the Virtual Memory settings screen under System Properties &rarr; Performance options.  I've tried to use the  to gain some information on what's using the disk, but the amount of data logged in just a couple of seconds is so vast that I don't know where to start. The only thing I see is that service.exe accesses the registry a lot... But I guess that's normal? If anyone care to take a look, the log dump is  (19MB)  To summarize:   Does the disk usage really go up when free space declines? If so, why? Can anyone deduct from my Procmon log file what program or process causes 99% disk usage?   edit: To comment on the "malware"-answer in the other post: I'd like to know, not guess. I doubt it is malware in my case, but if it is, my logs should show that.  update: Similar case just happened. Any clues from these two ResMon screenshots?      "System" doesn't really tell me much.
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In typical PCs the Size of Windows Folder is 6 to 8 GB but in my Case its 25GB. How can I delete the unwanted files from the Windows Folder (which, in turn, will optimize my C Drive size).  My system is Windows 7 with 60 GB in C Drive with 59 GB occupied.